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SUBMITTER: Emin M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5485919 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Emin Memet M Wang Gang G Castagna Francesco F Rodriguez-Lopez Josanna J Wahab Romina R Wang Jing J Adams Tessa T Wei Ying Y Jelic Sanja S
Science translational medicine 20160101 320
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), characterized by intermittent hypoxia (IH) during transient cessation of breathing, triples the risk for cardiovascular diseases. We used a phage display peptide library as an unbiased approach to investigate whether IH, which is specific to OSA, activates endothelial cells (ECs) in a distinctive manner. The target of a differentially bound peptide on ECs collected from OSA patients was identified as CD59, a major complement inhibitor that protects ECs from the mem ...[more]