2 percent of their Western-style, high-fat diet, had significantly lower levels of inflammation; higher paraoxonase activity, an antioxidant enzyme associated with good cholesterol; higher levels of good cholesterol; decreased lysophosphatidic acid, a tumor- promoter that accelerates plaque build-up in the arteries in animal models; and less atherosclerotic plaque.
What does LPA stand for?
LPA stands for Lysophosphatidic Acid
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Lysophosphatidic acid is known to cause podocyte cells to contract.
The discovery of lysophosphatidic acid as a diagnostically sensitive and specific test for ovarian cancer, leading to the formation of a company, Atairgin, which invested tens of millions of dollars to unsuccessfully validate the test in multicenter clinical trials and eventually closed its doors.
Lysophosphatidic acid stimulates the proliferation and motility of malignant pleural mesothelioma cells through lysophosphatidic acid receptors, LPA1 and LPA2.
Here we showed that pinoresinol-4,4'-di-O-[beta]-D-glucoside (PDG) from Valeriana officinalis induced calcium mobilization and cell migration through the activation of lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) receptor subtypes.
In that study, investigators found that adolescents (aged 12-21 years) with diabetes had significantly thicker IMT measurements than controls, and that there was an association between higher IMT and elevated levels of LDL cholesterol, apolipoprotein B, and lysophosphatidic acid (J.