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Simvastatin acts as an inhibitor of interferon gamma-induced cycloxygenase-2 expression in human THP-1 cells, but not in murine RAW264.7 cells

CHANG SEOK LEE¹, YONG JAE SHIN¹, CHEOLHEE WON¹, YUN-SONG LEE², CHUNG-GYU PARK³, SANG-KYU YE^1*, MYUNG-HEE CHUNG¹

1. Department of Pharmacology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-799, Korea.
2. Department of Pharmacology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon 440-746, Korea.
3. Department of Microbiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 110-799, Korea.
* Address correspondence to: Sang-Kyu Ye. E-mail: sangkyu@snu.ac.kr