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SUBMITTER: Nieves Torres EC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3986087 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nieves Torres Evelyn C EC Yang Binxia B Roy Bhaskar B Janardhanan Rajiv R Brahmbhatt Akshaar A Leof Ed E Mukhopadhyay Debabrata D Misra Sanjay S
PloS one 20140414 4
Hemodialysis vascular access can develop venous neointimal hyperplasia (VNH) causing stenosis. Recent clinical and experimental data has demonstrated that there is increased expression of a disintegrin and metalloproteinase thrombospondin motifs-1 (ADAMTS-1) at site of VNH. The experiments outlined in the present paper were designed to test the hypothesis that targeting of the adventitia of the outflow vein of murine arteriovenous fistula (AVF) using a small hairpin RNA that inhibits ADAMTS-1 ex ...[more]