Atherosclerosis is caused
by oxidized lipids that overwhelm the cells sent to clean them up when they irritate blood vessel walls; the fatty deposits that narrow blood vessels are made up of lipids and dead cells.
Not exact matches
Total crosslinks, total protein carbonyls, total AGEs, total amyloid, aggregate, adducts, mtDNA oxidative lesions, total lipofuscin, total
oxidized redox disulfides, total
lipid peroxidation chain propagation
by aldehydes and propagators (MDA Malondialdehyde / TBARS, 4 - HNE, Acrolein), total giant senescent mitochondria and a crap load of others.
Oxidized lipids promote arterial plaque formation
by activating the immune response, which promotes inflammation and attracts white blood cells to engulf and contain the damaged molecules.
These
lipids get
oxidized and are consumed
by macrophages, creating a «fatty streak», which can be found as early as teenage years [28].
Results showed significant reductions in
oxidized proteins and
lipids — molecules that had been damaged
by accumulated toxins and waste products.