Mechanical & Materials Engineering, Department of
Date of this Version
2012
Citation
FEBS Letters 586 (2012) 2164–2170
Abstract
Atherosclerosis is intimately coupled to blood flow by the presence of predilection sites. The coupling is through mechanotransduction of endothelial cells and approximately 2000 gene are associated with this process. This paper describes a new platform to study and identify new signalling pathways in endothelial cells covering an atherosclerotic plaque. The identified networks are synthesized in primary cells to study their reaction to flow. This synthetic approach might lead to new insights and drug targets.
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Copyright 2012 Federation of European Biochemical Societies.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2012.04.031