ROBERT RAFFAI

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Apolipoprotein E promotes the regression of atherosclerosis independently of lowering plasma cholesterol levels
    Robert L Raffai
    Division of Vascular Surgery, Pacific Vascular Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, USA
    Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 25:436-41. 2005
  2. ncbi Hypomorphic apolipoprotein E mice: a new model of conditional gene repair to examine apolipoprotein E-mediated metabolism
    Robert L Raffai
    Gladstone Institutes of Cardiovascular Disease and Neurological Disease, San Francisco, California 94141 9100, USA
    J Biol Chem 277:11064-8. 2002
  3. ncbi Diet-induced occlusive coronary atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, cardiac dysfunction, and premature death in scavenger receptor class B type I-deficient, hypomorphic apolipoprotein ER61 mice
    Songwen Zhang
    Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Circulation 111:3457-64. 2005
  4. ncbi Cholesterol: from heart attacks to Alzheimer's disease
    Robert L Raffai
    Department of Pathology, Gladstone Institutes of Cardiovascular Disease and Neurological Disease, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94141-9100, USA
    J Lipid Res 44:1423-30. 2003
  5. ncbi VEGF is crucial for the hepatic vascular development required for lipoprotein uptake
    Brian Carpenter
    Pacific Vascular Research Laboratory, Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0507, USA
    Development 132:3293-303. 2005

Collaborators

  • Brian Carpenter
  • Songwen Zhang
  • Stephanie Stoll
  • Karl H Weisgraber
  • Eliza Vasile
  • Michael H Picard
  • Rong Wang
  • Yu Zhu
  • Robert McCuskey
  • Monty Krieger
  • Yuankai Lin

Detail Information

Publications5

  1. ncbi Apolipoprotein E promotes the regression of atherosclerosis independently of lowering plasma cholesterol levels
    Robert L Raffai
    Division of Vascular Surgery, Pacific Vascular Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, USA
    Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 25:436-41. 2005
    ..This study examined whether apoE can promote atherosclerosis regression independently of lowering plasma cholesterol levels...
  2. ncbi Hypomorphic apolipoprotein E mice: a new model of conditional gene repair to examine apolipoprotein E-mediated metabolism
    Robert L Raffai
    Gladstone Institutes of Cardiovascular Disease and Neurological Disease, San Francisco, California 94141 9100, USA
    J Biol Chem 277:11064-8. 2002
    ....
  3. ncbi Diet-induced occlusive coronary atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, cardiac dysfunction, and premature death in scavenger receptor class B type I-deficient, hypomorphic apolipoprotein ER61 mice
    Songwen Zhang
    Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Circulation 111:3457-64. 2005
    ..Mice in which similar features of CHD could be induced with a lipid-rich diet would represent a powerful tool to study CHD...
  4. ncbi Cholesterol: from heart attacks to Alzheimer's disease
    Robert L Raffai
    Department of Pathology, Gladstone Institutes of Cardiovascular Disease and Neurological Disease, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94141-9100, USA
    J Lipid Res 44:1423-30. 2003
    ..In addition, accumulating in vitro and in vivo evidence suggests a role for cholesterol in modulating the cellular processing of Abeta with the potential to affect AD...
  5. ncbi VEGF is crucial for the hepatic vascular development required for lipoprotein uptake
    Brian Carpenter
    Pacific Vascular Research Laboratory, Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0507, USA
    Development 132:3293-303. 2005
    ..These findings provide the first genetic evidence that VEGF dynamically regulates SEC fenestration during liver organogenesis, a process that is required for lipoprotein uptake by the liver...