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High Free Cholesterol Bioavailability Drives the Tissue Pathologies in Scarb1-/- Mice.
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology - 1 Oct 2021
Liu Jing, Gillard Baiba K, Yelamanchili Dedipya, Gotto Antonio M, Rosales Corina, Pownall Henry J
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Objective: Overall and atherosclerosis-associated mortality is elevated in humans with very high HDL (high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol concentrations. Mice with a deficiency of the HDL receptor, Scarb1 (scavenger receptor class B type 1), are a robust model of this phenotype and exhibit several additional pathologies. We hypothesized that the previously reported high plasma concentration of free cholesterol...
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