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A Cytokine-like Protein DKK3 Is Atheroprotective

Baoqi Yu, Stefan Kiechl, Dan Qi, Xiaochong Wang, Yanting Song, Siegfried Weger, Agnes Mayr, Alexandra Le Bras, Eirini Karamariti, Zhongyi Zhang, Ivan del Barco Barrantes, Christof Niehrs, Georg Schett, Yanhua Hu, Wen Wang, Johann Willeit, Aijuan Qu, Qingbo Xu
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Circulation. 2017;CIRCULATIONAHA.117.027690
Originally published July 3, 2017
Baoqi Yu
Cardiovascular Division, King's College London BHF Centre, London, United Kingdom
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Stefan Kiechl
Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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Dan Qi
Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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Xiaochong Wang
Cardiovascular Division, King's College London BHF Centre, London, United Kingdom
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Yanting Song
Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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Siegfried Weger
Department of Internal and Laboratory Medicine, Bruneck Hospital, Bruneck, Italy
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Ivan del Barco Barrantes
Division of Molecular Embryology, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany
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Christof Niehrs
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Georg Schett
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Yanhua Hu
Cardiovascular Division, King's College London BHF Centre, London, United Kingdom
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Wen Wang
Institute of Bioengineering, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
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Aijuan Qu
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Qingbo Xu
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CIRCULATIONAHA.117.027690
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.027690
PubMed: 
28674110

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American Heart Association, Inc.
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0009-7322
Online ISSN: 
1524-4539
History: 
  • Received February 2, 2017
  • Revision received June 6, 2017
  • Accepted June 16, 2017
  • Originally published July 3, 2017.

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© 2017 Circulation is published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wolters Kluwer. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Baoqi Yu1;
  2. Stefan Kiechl2;
  3. Dan Qi3;
  4. Xiaochong Wang1;
  5. Yanting Song3;
  6. Siegfried Weger4;
  7. Agnes Mayr4;
  8. Alexandra Le Bras1;
  9. Eirini Karamariti1;
  10. Zhongyi Zhang1;
  11. Ivan del Barco Barrantes5;
  12. Christof Niehrs6;
  13. Georg Schett7;
  14. Yanhua Hu1;
  15. Wen Wang8;
  16. Johann Willeit2;
  17. Aijuan Qu3;
  18. Qingbo Xu1*
  1. 1Cardiovascular Division, King's College London BHF Centre, London, United Kingdom
  2. 2Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
  3. 3Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
  4. 4Department of Internal and Laboratory Medicine, Bruneck Hospital, Bruneck, Italy
  5. 5Division of Molecular Embryology, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany
  6. 6Division of Molecular Embryology, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany & Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz, Germany
  7. 7Department of Internal Medicine 3, Institute for Clinical Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
  8. 8Institute of Bioengineering, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
  1. ↵* Cardiovascular Division, King's College London, BHF Centre, 125 Coldharbour Lane, London SE5 9NU, UK qingbo.xu{at}kcl.ac.uk


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