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Effect of a coronary-heart-disease-associated variant of ADAMTS7 on endothelial cell angiogenesis.
Atherosclerosis - 1 Mar 2020
Pu Xiangyuan, Chan Kenneth, Yang Wei, Xiao Qingzhong, Zhang Li, Moore Andrew D, Liu Chuanju, Webb Tom R, Caulfield Mark J, Samani Nilesh J, Zhu Jianhua, Ye Shu
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Recent studies have unveiled an association between ADAMTS7 gene variation and coronary artery disease (CAD) caused by atherosclerosis. We investigated if the ADAMTS7 Serine214-to-Proline substitution arising from a CAD-associated variant affected angiogenesis, since neovascularization plays an important role in atherosclerosis. METHODS AND RESULTS: ADAMTS7 knockdown in vascular endothelial...
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