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ReviewArteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology2025

Atherosclerotic Plaque Instability and Rupture: Recommended Mouse Models to Empower Clinically Relevant Discoveries, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics.

Jonathan Noonan, Luis Cardoso, Alex Bobik, Karlheinz Peter

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Review in Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Monocyte Chemokines Enhance Atherosclerotic Plaque Necrosis After Bacterial Kidney Infection.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jonathan NoonanBaker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (J.N., A.B., K.P.).ORCID 0000-0001-9173-0903
Luis CardosoCity College of New York, NY (L.C.).ORCID 0000-0002-2252-7802
Alex BobikBaker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (J.N., A.B., K.P.).
Karlheinz PeterBaker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (J.N., A.B., K.P.).ORCID 0000-0002-8040-2258

Funding

Microcalcifications in Atherosclerotic PlaqueR16GM145474 · NIGMS · CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK · PI CARDOSO, LUIS · 2022 to 2025
$694k
NIGMS NIH HHS R16 GM145474
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

clinical problemAtherosclerotic plaque instability/rupture is the major driver of myocardial infarction and stroke, the leading causes of cardiovascular morbidity/mortality. However, the mechanisms leading to plaque rupture are poorly understood. This limits our ability to establish sensitive and diagnostic tools to identify plaques that are prone to rupture and to develop much-needed plaque-stabilizing therapies. RECOMMENDATIONS: The diagnostic identification and therapeutic stabilization of unstable plaques are considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine, holding the potential to significantly reduce cardiovascular morbidity/mortality. To achieve this, it is vital that preclinical models reflect plaque instability/rupture as observed in patients. This will allow mechanistic discoveries, the development of diagnostic tools, and treatment options to identify and stabilize rupture-prone, unstable atherosclerotic plaques. This can be achieved using appropriate, research question-dependent, but currently underutilized mouse models with direct translational relevance. SUMMARY OF STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF MOUSE MODELS FOR ATHEROSCLEROSIS: Conventional mouse models of atherosclerosis, LDLR

Indexed as

ArteriesAtherosclerosisPlaque, AtheroscleroticAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalHumansMiceMice, Knockout, ApoEPhenotypeRupture, Spontaneousatherosclerosishemorrhageinflammationischemic strokelipoproteins, LDLmyocardial infarctionthrombosis

Identifiers

PMID40991721
PMCPMC12483285

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