Letter by secchiero and zauli regarding article, "osteoprotegerin inhibits vascular calcification without affecting atherosclerosis in ldlr (-'-) mice"

Circulation

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Secchiero, Paola ^a   Zauli, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; OSTEOCLAST DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; OSTEOPROTEGERIN; OSTEOPROTEGERIN FC ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT OSTEOPROTEGERIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LETTER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; ANIMAL; CALCINOSIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CALCINOSIS; HUMANS; MICE; OSTEOPROTEGERIN; RECEPTORS, LDL;

EID: 47649086226     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.765776     Document Type: Letter

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