TY - GEN AU - Perales Romero, Sonia AU - Alejandre Pérez, María José AU - Palomino Morales, Rogelio AU - Torres, Carolina AU - Linares Gil, Ana PY - 2010 SN - 1476-511X UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/29688 AB - Background Nutritional control of gene regulation guides the transformation of smooth muscle cells (SMC) into foam cells in atherosclerosis. Oxidative stress has been reported in areas of lipid accumulation, activating proliferation genes.... AB - Methods An in vivo/in vitro cell model was used, culturing SMC isolated from chicks exposed to an atherogenic cholesterol-rich diet with 5% of cholesterol (SMC-Ch) alone or followed by an anti-atherogenic fish oil-rich diet with 10% of menhaden oil... AB - Conclusion Replacement of a cholesterol-rich diet with a fish oil-rich diet produces some reversal of the cholesterol-induced changes, increasing the resistance of SMC to apoptosis. LA - eng PB - Biomed Central KW - Atherosclerosis KW - Fatty acids KW - Apoptosis KW - Cholesterol KW - Diet KW - Fish oils KW - Foam cells KW - Tumor suppressor protein p53 TI - Fish oil supplementation reverses the effect of cholesterol on apoptotic gene expression in smooth muscle cells ER -