Acute perioperative-stress-induced increase of atherosclerotic plaque volume and vulnerability to rupture in apolipoprotein-E-deficient mice is amenable to statin treatment and IL-6 inhibition.

Myocardial infarction and stroke are frequent after surgical procedures and consume a considerable amount of benefit of surgical therapy. Perioperative stress, induced by surgery, is composed of hemodynamic and inflammatory reactions. The effects of perioperative stress on atherosclerotic plaques are ill-defined.

Investigation of microdeletions in syndromic intellectual disability by MLPA in Iranian population.

Background: Intellectual Disabilities (ID), defined as a state of developmental deficit, result in significant limitation of intellect and poor adaptation behavior. A number of genetic factors can result in ID, such as chromosomal abnormalities, copy number variation, and single gene defect. Karyotyping is the routine method for detecting chromosomal abnormalities in patients with ID.

Expression of fibulin-6 in failing hearts and its role for cardiac fibroblast migration.

Aims: The cardiac extracellular matrix (ECM) undergoes a dynamic transition following myocardial infarction. Fibulin-6 is expressed in cell junctions particularly in tissues subjected to significant mechanical stress. Fibulin-6 deficiency results in defective cell migration in nematodes and early embryonic lethality in mice.