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... effects of polyphenols and alcohol of red wine on the expression of adhesion molecules and inflammatory cytokines related to atherosclerosis: a randomized clinical ...

G Chiva-Blanch, M Urpi-Sarda... - ... American Journal of ..., 2012 - Am Soc Nutrition Background: Few clinical studies have focused on the alcohol-independent cardiovascular effects of the phenolic compounds of red wine (RW). Objective: We aimed to evaluate the effects of ethanol and phenolic compounds of RW on the expression of inflammatory ...

1 From the Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica August Pi i Sunyer (GC-B, MU-S, RC, SA, PV-M, and RE) and the Nutrition and Food Science Department, Xarxa de Referència de Teconolgia dels Aliments de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Instituto Nacional de Salud, Pharmacy Faculty (RL, MR-R, RML-R, and CA-L), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fisiopatologia de la Obesidad y la Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain (GC-B, MU-S, RC, SA, PV-M, DC, FT, RML-R, and RE); the INGENIO-CONSOLIDER Program, Fun-c-food CSD2007-06, Barcelona, Spain (RL, MR-R, and CA-L); the Department of Preventive and Legal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain (MG, OP, and DC); and the Endocrinology Department, Biomedical Research Laboratory, Hospital Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga, Spain (FT).

↵2 Supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (grants AGL 2005-05597ALI, AGL2006-14228-C03-01/02-ALI, AGL2007-66638-C02-02/ALI, AGL2009-13906-C02-02, and PI070473), Spain; the Manuel de Oya fellowship program (GC-B), the Sara Borrell fellowship program [CD09/00134 (MU-S) and CD10/00151 (SA)], and the Ramon y Cajal program (RL), all from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación; and an FI-DGR 2010 (Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca) fellowship from the Generalitat de Catalunya (MR-R) and the Ajuts de Personal Investigador en Formació de la Universitat de Barcelona fellowship program (PV-M). Torres SA provided the red wine and dealcoholized red wine used in the study, and Gin Xoriguer provided the gin used in the study.