Table 3.

Effects of Hsp27 in processes potentially involved in atherosclerosis

Process	References
Maintaining intracellular redox status	Mehlen et al. (1997a); Arrigo et al. (2005)
Cell apoptosis	Bruey et al. (2000a); Charette et al. (2000); Paul et al. (2002); Kabakov et al. (2003)
Smooth muscle cell migration	Hedges et al. (1999)
NF-kB inhibition	Chen et al. (2004)
Endothelial cell migration	McMullen et al. (2005); Piotrowicz et al. (1998)
Platelet actin polymerization and aggregation	Polanowska-Grabowska and Gear (2000)
Endothelial cell barrier function	Hirano et al. (2004a)
Development of intimal hyperplasia	Connolly et al. (2003)
Cardiac transplant rejection	Schimke et al. (2000)
Monocyte-mediated cell injury	Jaattela & Wissing (1993)
Established plaque	Martin-Ventura et al. (2004)
Oxidative stress in smooth muscle cells	Negre-Aminou et al. (2002)
Sheer stress in endothelial cells	Yoo et al. (2005)
Anti-inflammatory via IL-10 induction	De et al. (2000)