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Development and rescue of human familial hypercholesterolaemia in a xenograft mouse model

Diseases of lipid metabolism are a major cause of human morbidity, but no animal model entirely recapitulates human lipoprotein metabolism. Here we develop a xenograft mouse model using hepatocytes from a patient with familial hypercholesterolaemia caused by loss-of-function mutations in the low-den...

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Autores principales: Bissig-Choisat, Beatrice, Wang, Lili, Legras, Xavier, Saha, Pradip K., Chen, Leon, Bell, Peter, Pankowicz, Francis P., Hill, Matthew C., Barzi, Mercedes, Leyton, Claudia Kettlun, Leung, Hon-Chiu Eastwood, Kruse, Robert L., Himes, Ryan W., Goss, John A., Wilson, James M., Chan, Lawrence, Lagor, William R., Bissig, Karl-Dimiter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Pub. Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26081744
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8339