sub:provenance { sub:assertiondcterms:description "[Our findings were: (1) Serum levels of OPG were raised in patients with unstable angina (n=40), but not in those with stable angina (n=40), comparing controls (n=20); (2) mRNA levels of RANKL were increased in T-cells in unstable angina patients accompanied by increased expression of RANK in monocytes; (3) strong immunostaining of OPG/RANKL/RANK was seen within thrombus material obtained at the site of plaque rupture during acute myocardial infarction; (4) OPG/RANKL/RANK was expressed in the atherosclerotic plaques of apoE(-/-) mice, with RANKL located specifically to the plaques; and (5) RANKL enhanced the release of monocyte chemoattractant peptide-1 in mononuclear cells from unstable angina patients, and promoted matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) activity in vascular smooth muscle cells.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en ; wi:evidencedgn-void:source_evidence_literature ; sio:SIO_000772miriam-pubmed:16424351 ; prov:wasDerivedFromdgn-void:BEFREE ; prov:wasGeneratedByeco:ECO_0000203 . dgn-void:BEFREEpav:importedOn "2017-02-19"^^xsd:date . dgn-void:source_evidence_literatureaeco:ECO_0000212 ; rdfs:comment "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en ; rdfs:label "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . }