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The purpose of the present paper was to study the possible activation of calpain in human carotid plaques, and to compare calpain activity in the plaques from symptomatic patients with those obtained from patients without symptoms.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Human atherosclerotic carotid plaques (n = 29, 12 associated with symptoms) were removed by endarterectomy. Calpain activity and apoptosis were detected by performing immunohistochemical analysis and TUNEL assay on human carotid plaque sections. An antibody specific for calpain-proteolyzed \u03b1-fodrin was used on western blots.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>We found that calpain was activated in all the plaques and calpain activity colocalized with apoptotic cell death. Our observation of autoproteolytic cleavage of the 80 kDa subunit of calpain-1 provided further evidence for enzyme activity in the plaque samples. When calpain activity was quantified, we found that plaques from symptomatic patients displayed significantly lower calpain activity compared with asymptomatic plaques.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>These novel results suggest that calpain-1 is commonly active in carotid artery atherosclerotic plaques, and that calpain activity is colocalized with cell death and inversely associated with symptoms.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2261-9-26","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,7,7]],"date-time":"2009-07-07T06:14:41Z","timestamp":1246947281000},"update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Activation of calpain-1 in human carotid artery atherosclerotic lesions"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Isabel","family":"Gon\u00e7alves","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Mihaela","family":"Nitulescu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Takaomi C","family":"Saido","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Nuno","family":"Dias","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Luis M","family":"Pedro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Jos\u00e9 Fernandes","family":"e Fernandes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Mikko PS","family":"Ares","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Isabella","family":"P\u00f6rn-Ares","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,6,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"247_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"31075","DOI":"10.1074\/jbc.271.49.31075","volume":"271","author":"DM Vanags","year":"1996","unstructured":"Vanags DM, P\u00f6rn-Ares MI, Coppola S, Burgess DH, Orrenius S: Protease involvement in fodrin cleavage and phosphatidylserine exposure in apoptosis. 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