Severe Atherosclerosis and Hypercholesterolemia in Mice Lacking Both the Melanocortin Type 4 Receptor and Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor.

Dysfunction of the melanocortin system can result in severe obesity accompanied with dyslipidemia and symptoms of the metabolic syndrome but the effect on vascular atherogenesis is not known. To study the impact of obesity and dyslipidemia on the cardiovascular system, we generated mice double-defic...

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Main Authors: Vera Lede, Christin Franke, Andrej Meusel, Daniel Teupser, Albert Ricken, Joachim Thiery, Jürgen Schiller, Daniel Huster, Torsten Schöneberg, Angela Schulz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5193345?pdf=render