PREVENTIVE/REMEDY FOR ARTERIOSCLEROTIC DISEASE AND METHOD OF EVALUATING THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURE

摘要

There is provided an evaluation method of effect of a remedy or a therapeutic procedure for atherosclerosis directly or indirectly acting on a substance having a nature of exacerbating atherosclerosis (particularly, a protein) and being present in an atherosclerotic lesion to improve the atherosclerotic lesion, which comprises performing an evaluation by, regarding respective atherosclerotic lesion samples of a mammal origin collected from an administration- or application-group of the remedy or therapeutic procedure, and from a non-administration- or non-application-group, comparing a value of one group corresponding to strength of an atherosclerosis-exacerbating activity of the substance (for example, a pharmacological activity such as an enzyme activity) present in the sample and corrected by an amount of a correction marker in the atherosclerotic lesion, with that of the other group, said amount of the correction maker varying correlating with an amount of the substance in the atherosclerotic lesion and being not influenced by the remedy or therapeutic procedure to be evaluated.