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Modeling hypercholesterolemia and vascular lipid accumulation in LDL receptor mutant zebrafish.
Journal of lipid research - 1 Feb 2018
Liu Chao, Kim Young Sook, Kim Jungsu, Pattison Jennifer, Kamaid Andrés, Miller Yury I
Abstract excerpt
Elevated plasma LDL cholesterol is the dominant risk factor for the development of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Deficiency in the LDL receptor (LDLR) is a major cause of familial hypercholesterolemia in humans, and the LDLR knockout mouse is a major animal model of atherosclerosis. Here we report the generation and characterization of an ldlr mutant zebrafish as a new animal model to study...
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