Communications Biology (Nov 2022)

Angiopoietin-like 2 is essential to aortic valve development in mice

  • Pauline Labbé,
  • Victoria Munoz Goyette,
  • Nathalie Thorin-Trescases,
  • Louis Villeneuve,
  • Ines Desanlis,
  • Constance Delwarde,
  • Yan-Fen Shi,
  • Cécile Martel,
  • Carol Yu,
  • Azadeh Alikashani,
  • Maya Mamarbachi,
  • Frédéric Lesage,
  • Samuel Mathieu,
  • Jean-Claude Tardif,
  • Patrick Mathieu,
  • Marie Kmita,
  • Éric Thorin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04243-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Mice knockdown for Angiopoietin-like 2 (Angptl2) exhibit spontaneous aortic valve stenosis associated with a decrease in Notch signalling and an imbalance in cell apoptosis, senescence and proliferation during embryonic valve remodelling stage.