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Silencing of Anticoagulant Protein C Evokes Low-Incident but Spontaneous Atherothrombosis in Apolipoprotein E-Deficient Mice-Brief Report.
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology - 1 May 2017
Ouweneel Amber B, Heestermans Marco, Verwilligen Robin A F, Gijbels Marion J J, Reitsma Pieter H, Van Eck Miranda, van Vlijmen Bart J M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Murine atherosclerosis models do not spontaneously develop atherothrombotic complications. We investigated whether disruption of natural anticoagulation allows preexisting atherosclerotic plaques to progress toward an atherothrombotic phenotype. APPROACH AND RESULTS: On lowering of plasma protein C levels with small interfering RNA (siProc) in 8-week Western-type diet-fed atherosclerotic apolipoprotein...
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