SR-BI in bone marrow derived cells protects mice from diet induced coronary artery atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction.

SR-BI deficient mice that are also hypomorphic for apolipoprotein E expression develop diet induced occlusive coronary artery atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction and early death. To test the role of SR-BI in bone marrow derived cells, we used bone marrow transplantation to generate SR-BI-null; ap...

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Main Authors: Ying Pei, Xing Chen, Dina Aboutouk, Mark T Fuller, Omid Dadoo, Pei Yu, Elizabeth J White, Suleiman A Igdoura, Bernardo L Trigatti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3742605?pdf=render