Atherosclerosis in perlecan heterozygous mice

The hypothesis that lipoprotein association with perlecan is atherogenic was tested by studying atherosclerosis in mice that had a heterozygous deletion of perlecan, the primary extracellular heparan sulfate proteoglycan in arteries. We first studied the expression of perlecan in mouse lesions and n...

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Main Authors: Reeba K. Vikramadithyan, Yuko Kako, Guangping Chen, Yunying Hu, Eri Arikawa-Hirasawa, Yoshihiko Yamada, Ira J. Goldberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2004-10-01
Series:Journal of Lipid Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520312530