cardiovascular system
• double knockouts are less susceptible than Ldlrtm1Her single knockouts
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• surface lesions in aortas are significantly smaller than those in Ldlrtm1Her homozygous, Cxcl wild-type littermates (14.2% vs 17.1%)
• lesion area in the aoritic valve is smaller than in littermates (186,423 micron2 vs 238636 micron2
• there is less macrophage accumualation in lesions of double knockouts than in control single mutants
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