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Bela F. Asztalos, Ph.D.
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Scientist I Lipid Metabolism Laboratory Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA at Tufts University 711 Washington Street Boston, MA 02111-1524 Phone: (617) 556-3112 Fax: (617) 556-3103 E-Mail: bela.asztalos@tufts.edu |
| Education | Ph.D., Biochemistry Attila Jozsef University, Szeged, Hungary |
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| Research Focus | HDL metabolism, structure and function; cardiovascular disease risk reduction; relationship between nutrition, aging, lipoproteins and cardiovascular disease risk. |
Recent Publications |
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| Sankaranarayanan S, Kellner-Weibel G, de la Llera-Moya M, Phillips MC, Asztalos BF, Bittman R, Rothblat GH.A sensitive assay for ABCA1-mediated cholesterol efflux using BODIPY-cholesterol. J Lipid Res. 2011 Dec;52(12):2332-40. Epub 2011 Sep 27.
Roshan B, Ganda OP, Desilva R, Ganim RB, Ward E, Haessler SD, Polisecki EY, Asztalos BF, Schaefer EJ. Homozygous lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) deficiency due to a new loss of function mutation and review of the literature. J Clin Lipidol. 2011 Nov;5(6):493-9. Sorci-Thomas MG, Zabalawi M, Bharadwaj MS, Wilhelm AJ, Owen JS, Asztalos BF, Bhat S, Thomas MJ. Dysfunctional HDL containing L159R ApoA-I leads to exacerbation of atherosclerosis in hyperlipidemic mice. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2011 Sep 14. [Epub ahead of print] Ai M, Otokozawa S, Asztalos BF, White CC, Cupples LA, Nakajima K, Lamon-Fava S, Wilson PW, Matsuzawa Y, Schaefer EJ. Adiponectin: an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease in men in the Framingham offspring Study. Atherosclerosis. 2011 Aug;217(2):543-8. Asztalos BF, Tani M, Schaefer EJ. Metabolic and functional relevance of HDL subspecies. Curr Opin Lipidol. 2011 Jun;22(3):176-85. Sun JK, Keenan HA, Cavallerano JD, Asztalos BF, Schaefer EJ, Sell DR, Strauch CM, Monnier VM, Doria A, Aiello LP, King GL. Protection from retinopathy and other complications in patients with type 1 diabetes of extreme duration: the joslin 50-year medalist study. Diabetes Care. 2011 Apr;34(4):968-74. Thongtang N, Ai M, Otokozawa S, Himbergen TV, Asztalos BF, Nakajima K, Stein E, Jones PH, Schaefer EJ.E ffects of maximal atorvastatin and rosuvastatin treatment on markers of glucose homeostasis and inflammation. Am J Cardiol. 2011 Feb 1;107(3):387-92. Lamon-Fava S, Herrington DM, Horvath KV, Schaefer EJ, Asztalos BF. Effect of hormone replacement therapy on plasma lipoprotein levels and coronary atherosclerosis progression in postmenopausal women according to type 2 diabetes mellitus status. Metabolism. 2010 Dec;59(12):1794-800. Otokozawa S, Ai M, Asztalos BF, White CC, Demissie-Banjaw S, Cupples LA, Nakajima K, Wilson PW, Schaefer EJ. Direct assessment of plasma low density lipoprotein and high density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and coronary heart disease: results from the Framingham Offspring Study. Atherosclerosis. 2010 Nov;213(1):251-5. Sankaranarayanan S, de la Llera-Moya M, Drazul-Schrader D, Asztalos BF, Weibel GL, Rothblat GH.Importance of macrophage cholesterol content on the flux of cholesterol mass. J Lipid Res. 2010 Nov;51(11):3243-9. Asztalos BF. High-density lipoprotein particles, coronary heart disease, and niacin. J Clin Lipidol. 2010 Sep-Oct;4(5):405-10. Asztalos BF, Mujawar Z, Morrow MP, Grant A, Pushkarsky T, Wanke C, Shannon R, Geyer M, Kirchhoff F, Sviridov D, Fitzgerald ML, Bukrinsky M, Mansfield KG. Circulating Nef induces dyslipidemia in simian immunodeficiency virus-infected macaques by suppressing cholesterol efflux. J Infect Dis. 2010 Aug 15;202(4):614-23. Schaefer EJ, Santos RD, Asztalos BF. Marked HDL deficiency and premature coronary heart disease. Curr Opin Lipidol. 2010 Aug;21(4):289-97. Asztalos BF, Swarbrick MM, Schaefer EJ, Dallal GE, Horvath KV, Ai M, Stanhope KL, Austrheim-Smith I, Wolfe BM, Ali M, Havel PJ. Effects of weight loss, induced by gastric bypass surgery, on HDL remodeling in obese women. J Lipid Res. 2010 Aug;51(8):2405-12. Ai M, Otokozawa S, Asztalos BF, Ito Y, Nakajima K, White CC, Cupples LA, Wilson PW, Schaefer EJ. Small dense LDL cholesterol and coronary heart disease: results from the Framingham Offspring Study. Clin Chem. 2010 Jun;56(6):967-76. |
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