Moderate Autophagy Inhibits Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Senescence to Stabilize Progressed Atherosclerotic Plaque via the mTORC1/ULK1/ATG13 Signal Pathway

In order to investigate the effects of autophagy induced by rapamycin in the development of atherosclerosis plaque we established murine atherosclerosis model which was induced in ApoE−/− mice by high fat and cholesterol diet (HFD) for 16 weeks. Rapamycin and 3-Methyladenine (MA) were used as autoph...

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Main Authors: Zhenli Luo, Wenhuan Xu, Sai Ma, Hongyu Qiao, Lei Gao, Ran Zhang, Bo Yang, Ya Qiu, Jiangwei Chen, Ming Zhang, Bo Tao, Feng Cao, Yabin Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/3018190