A turbulent path to plaque formation

Vedanta Mehta and Ellie Tzima ()
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Vedanta Mehta: Vedanta Mehta and Ellie Tzima are at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK.
Ellie Tzima: Vedanta Mehta and Ellie Tzima are at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK.

Nature, 2016, vol. 540, issue 7634, 531-532

Abstract: Plaque deposits often occur in curved arterial regions with turbulent blood flow. Endothelial cells have been found to respond to blood flow through a previously unidentified signalling pathway that affects plaque build-up. See Letter p.579

Date: 2016
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