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  dgn-np:NP805489.RAvubJgYI_Vw12trLdaqbecKkAiDoKgn4dTY5u9kJgcxE130_assertion dcterms: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:evidence dgn-void:source_evidence_literature ;
    sio:SIO_000772 miriam-pubmed:16424351 ;
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  dgn-void:befree-20150227 pav:importedOn "2015-02-27"^^xsd:date .
  dgn-void:source_evidence_literature a eco:ECO_0000212 ;
    rdfs:comment "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en ;
    rdfs:label "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en .
}