
Gissette Reyes-Soffer. MD FAHA
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Gissette Reyes-Soffer. MD FAHA
@grsoffer
CUIMC -Associate Professor-Lipid-Lipoprotein Metabolism Researher. Wife/mom Opinions and comments are my own.


ICYMI here are results from LBS presentations at #ACC26.




ADAMTS7 has been repeatedly associated with #coronary artery disease. doi.org/10.1172/JCI187… In this Research Article, Robert C. Bauer @RobertCBauer & team @ColumbiaMed use the largest human #atherosclerosis carotid artery scRNA-seq dataset and new mouse models to demonstrate that ADAMTS7 is expressed across multiple vascular cell types and contributes to atherosclerosis by promoting lipid accumulation in smooth muscle cells. The image shows smooth muscle cells labeled with ZsGreen and counterstained with DAPI (blue) for nuclei—indicating increased foam cells from a diet-induced mouse model of atherosclerosis with Adamts7-overexpressing SMCs were from SMC origin.



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