Dr. Stephen F Petras DMD
Dentist | General Practice
120 W Front Ave Stockton IL, 61085About
Dr. Stephen Petras is a Dentist practicing in Stockton, IL. Dr. Petras specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases and conditions associated with the mouth and overall dental health. Dentists are trained to carry out such treatment as professional cleaning, restorative, prosthodontic, and endodontic procedures, and performing examinations, among many others.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- CP-346086: an MTP inhibitor that lowers plasma cholesterol and triglycerides in experimental animals and in humans.
- Isozyme-nonselective N-substituted bipiperidylcarboxamide acetyl-CoA carboxylase inhibitors reduce tissue malonyl-CoA concentrations, inhibit fatty acid synthesis, and increase fatty acid oxidation in cultured cells and in experimental animals.
- Dual-action hypoglycemic and hypocholesterolemic agents that inhibit glycogen phosphorylase and lanosterol demethylase.
- Regulation of osteoclast differentiation by statins.
- Survival of Bacillus thuringiensis Spores in Soil.
- Pharmacologic inhibition of site 1 protease activity inhibits sterol regulatory element-binding protein processing and reduces lipogenic enzyme gene expression and lipid synthesis in cultured cells and experimental animals.
- Rat alveolar macrophage production of chemoattractants for neutrophils: response
- Alveolar macrophage function is selectively altered after endotoxemia in rats.
- 3-(4-chlorophenyl)-2-(4-diethylaminoethoxyphenyl)-A-pentenonitrile monohydrogen citrate and related analogs. Reversible, competitive, first half-reaction squalene synthetase inhibitors.
- HMG-CoA reductase regulation: use of structurally diverse first half-reaction squalene synthetase inhibitors to characterize the site of mevalonate-derived nonsterol regulator production in cultured IM-9 cells.
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