Diet and cardiovascular health: Chylomicron remnants and their
emerging roles in vascular dysfunction in atherogenesis
The Royal Veterinary College, Camden, London, UK
18 - 19 December 2006
A Biochemical Society Focused Meeting
Proceedings (invited
speakers) will be published in Biochemical Society
Transactions
Abstract submission deadline: 9
October 2006
Abstract
submission is now open.
Early registration
deadline: 18 November 2006
Student
travel grants are available for this meeting.
Scientific Programme
- Organizers
- Kathleen Botham (The Royal Veterinary College, UK)
- Caroline Wheeler-Jones (The Royal Veterinary College,
UK)
- Sponsors
- Biochemical
Society Transactions
- Portland
Press
- Royal Veterinary
College
Timetable
Chylomicron remnants and cardiovascular disease
Monday 18 December 2006
- 11:00-14:00 Registration
- 14:00-14:15 Welcome from Chairman and from
the Principal of the Royal Veterinary College
- 14:15-15:15 John Mamo (Curtin University
of Technology, Australia)
- Title to be confirmed
- 15:15-15:45 Coffee/tea break
- 15:45-16:20 Allen Cooper (Stanford
University, USA)
- Chylomicron remnants and atherosclerosis
- 16:20-16:55 Tom Sanders (King's College
London, UK)
- Post-prandial lipoproteins and thrombosis
- 16:55-17:10 Selected oral communication
- 17:10-17:25 Selected oral communication
- 17:30-19:00 Drinks reception and poster
session
Chylomicron remnants and endothelial dysfunction
Tuesday 19 December 2006
- 8:45-9:20 Caroline Wheeler-Jones (Royal
Vetenary College, UK)
- Signalling mechanisms in the modulation of endothelial
function by chylomicron remnants
- 9:20-9:55 Manuel Castro Cabezas (Sint
Franciscus Gasthuis, The Netherlands)
- Inflammation, endothelial function and postprandial lipemia
- 9:55-10:30 Valentina Ruiz Gutierrez
(Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain)
- Modulation of the effects of chylomicron remnants on
endothelial function by minor dietary lipid components
- 10:30-10:45 Selected oral communication
- 10:45-11:00 Selected oral communication
- 11:00-11:30 Coffee/tea break
Chylomicron remnants and macrophage function
Tuesday 19 December 2006
- 11:30-12:05 Kathleen Botham (The Royal
Veterinary College, UK)
- The induction of macrophage foam cells by chylomicron remnants
- 12:05-12:40 Elena Bravo (Istituto
Superiore di Sanit? Italy)
- Mechanisms involved in chylomicron remnant lipid uptake by
macrophages
- 12:40-12:55 Charlotte Lawson (Royal
Veterinary College, London, UK)
- Chylomicron remnants and monocyte activation
- 12:55-13:10 Selected oral communication
- 13:10-14:30 Lunch and poster session
Chylomicron remnants and obesity, diabetes and the metabolic
syndrome
Tuesday 19 December 2006
- 14:30-15:05 Fredrik Karpe (University of
Oxford, UK)
- Chylomicron, chylomicron remnant and VLDL metabolism in the
metabolic syndrome
- 15:05-15:40 Spencer Proctor (University
of Alberta, Canada)
- Chylomicron and apoB 48 metabolism in the JCR:LA corpulent
rat, a model for the metabolic syndrome
- 15:40-15:55 Selected oral communication
- 15:55-16:10 Selected oral communication
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