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PART I: Atherosclerosis: Pathogenesis, model systems and emerging concepts.

1. Atherosclerosis: Pathogenesis and key cellular processes, current and emerging therapies, key challenges and future research directions

Yee-Hung Chan and Dipak P. Ramji

2. Key roles of inflammation in atherosclerosis: Mediators involved in orchestrating the inflammatory response and its resolution in the disease along with therapeutic avenues targeting inflammation

Yee-Hung Chan and Dipak P. Ramji

3. Survey of in vitro model systems for investigation of key cellular processes associated with atherosclerosis

Dipak P. Ramji, Alaa Ismail, Jing Chen, Fahad Alradi, and Sulaiman Al Alawi

Dipak P. Ramji, Yee-Hung Chan, Alaa Alahmadi, Reem Alotibi, and Nouf Alshehri

Juan Bautista Menendez-Gonzalez, and Neil P. Rodrigues

C. Roger White, Mayakonda Palgunachari, Paul Wolkowicz, and G. M. Anantharamaiah

7. Isolation and culturing of primary mouse and human macrophages

Alba de Juan and Begoña Lavin

8. Effective transfection and gene silencing of primary murine macrophages with small interfering RNA

Kim van Kuijk, Jan Nagenborg, and Judith C. Sluimer

9. Monitoring celular proliferation, migration and apoptosis associated with atherosclerosis plaques in vitro

Kerry S. Wadey, Alexandros Somos, Stephen J. Cross, Lien M. Reolizo, Jason L. Johnson, and Sarah J. George

10. Monocyte adhesion assays for detecting endothelial cell activation in vascular inflammation and aterosclerosis

Keman Xu, Fatma Saaoud, Stephanie Yu, Charles Drummer IV, Ying Shao, Yu Sun, Yifan Lu, Jianxin Sun, Jun Yu, Xiaohua Jiang, Hong Wang, and Xiaofeng Yang

11. Chick embryo ex vivo aortic sprouting assays for cardiovascular research

Selvaraj Vimalraj and Anuradha Dhanasekaran

12. Purification and analysis of circulating lipid particles

Barnaby W. R. Roper, Basmah Al-Sayejh, Ahmed Al-Aufi, Gary A. Cuthbert, Katie Lacey, Shervanthi Homer-Vanniasinkam, Michael A. Harrison, Darren C. Tomlinson, Ramzi Ajjan, and Sreenivasan Ponnambalam

13. Preparation of LDL, oxidation, methods of detection and applications in atherosclerosis research

Chandrakala Aluganti Narasimhulu and Sampath Parthasarathy

14. Monitoring modified lipoprotein uptake and macropinocytosis associated with macrophage foam cell formation

Alaa A. Alahmadi and Dipak P. Ramji

15. A fluorescent based in vitro method to assess cholesterol efflux. Sara Fernández-Castillejo, Anna Pedret, Úrsula Catalán, and Rosa Solà

16. Monitoring the anisotropy and fluidity of the HDL monolayer as

surrogates of HDL functionality

Sara Fernández-Castillejo, Anna Pedret, Úrsula Catalán, Claude Motta, and Rosa Solà

17. Assessment of ex-vivo antioxidative potential of murine HDL in atherosclerosis

Andrea Rivas-Urbina, Noemi Rotllan, David Santos, Josep Julve, Joan Carles Escolà-Gil, and Jose Luis Sanchez-Quesada

18. Dual-fluorescence in vitro efferocytosis assay

Arif Yurdagul Jr

19. Investigation of mitochondrial bioenergetic profile and dysfunction in atherosclerosis

Yee-Hung Chan, and Dipak P. Ramji

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