Title : Hormonal and cytokine effects of uric acid.

Pub. Date : 2006 Jan

PMID : 16340663






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1 Experimental studies suggest that uric acid induce its detrimental effects at the cellular level entering to vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) via an organic anion transport system, and followed by the activation of specific MAP kinases, nuclear transcription factors, with stimulation of COX-2, PDGF A and C chain, PDGF alpha receptor, and various inflammatory mediators, including C-reactive protein and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1. Uric Acid C-C motif chemokine ligand 2 Homo sapiens