[Since the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system has been implicated to play a role in atherosclerosis and plaque stability, we investigated the expression of members of the IGF system in carotid plaques, in particular IGFBP-1 and its role in the regulation of SMC proliferation.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE