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Atherosclerotic lesion progression is attenuated by reconstitution with bone marrow from macrophage-specific cholesteryl ester hydrolase transgenic mice.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology - 1 Oct 2011
Bie Jinghua, Zhao Bin, Ghosh Shobha
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Accumulation of cholesteryl ester (CE)-enriched macrophage foam cells is central to the development of atherosclerotic lesions. Intracellular CE hydrolysis is the rate-limiting step in the removal of free cholesterol from macrophage foam cells. Enhancing this process by transgenic overexpression of CE hydrolase (CEH) resulted in a significant decrease in diet-induced atherosclerosis in LDL receptor-deficient...
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