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Atheroma development in apolipoprotein E-null mice is not affected by partial inactivation of PTEN.
Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library - 1 Sept 2006
Andrés Vicente, Gascón-Irún Marisol, Pandolfi Pier Paolo, González-Navarro Herminia
Abstract excerpt
PTEN is a dual-specificity phosphatase that has been shown to inhibit vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) proliferation and migration, two key events in the ethiopathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Adenovirus-mediated PTEN overexpression inhibited the formation of vascular obstructive lesions induced by mechanical injury of the vessel wall. In this study, we investigated whether PTEN protects against atheroma...
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