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Diabetic atherosclerosis in APOE*4 mice: synergy between lipoprotein metabolism and vascular inflammation.
Journal of lipid research - 1 Feb 2013
Johnson Lance A, Kim Hyung-Suk, Knudson Melissa J, Nipp C Taylor, Yi Xianwen, Maeda Nobuyo
Abstract excerpt
Diabetes is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. To examine how diabetes interacts with a mildly compromised lipid metabolism, we introduced the diabetogenic Ins2(C96Y/+) (Akita) mutation into mice expressing human apoE4 (E4) combined with either an overexpressing human LDL receptor ge...
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