Transgenic human C-reactive protein is not proatherogenic in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice.

ABSTRACT: The association between circulating concentrations of C-reactive protein (CRP) and future atherothrombotic events has provoked speculation about a possible pathogenetic role of CRP. However, we show here that transgenic expression of human CRP had no effect on development, progression, or severity of spontaneous atherosclerosis, or on morbidity or mortality, in male apolipoprotein E (apoE)-deficient C57BL/6 mice up to 56 weeks, despite deposition of human CRP and mouse complement component 3 in the plaques. Although female apoE knockouts develop atherosclerosis more rapidly than males, the human CRP transgene is under sex hormone control and is expressed at human levels only in males. We therefore studied only male mice. The concentration of mouse serum amyloid P component, an extremely se

SUBMITTER: Hirschfield GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1149444 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature