Jianting Yao, Weiwei Gao, Yu Wang, Lu Wang, Kamal Diabakte, Jinyang Li, Jiemei Yang, Yongxing Jiang, Yuerong Liu, Shuyuan Guo, Xuezhu Zhao, Zhengyu Cao, Xi Chen, Qiannan Li, Haiyu Zhang, Wei Wang, Zhen Tian, Bicheng Li, Fang Tian, Guodong Wu, Shirin Pourteymour, Xi Huang, Fancheng Tan, Xiaoru Cao, Zhuowen Yang, Kang Li, Yan Zhang, Yong Li, Zhiguo Zhang, Hong Jin, Ye Tian
During atherosclerosis plaque progression, pathological intraplaque angiogenesis leads to plaque rupture accompanied by thrombosis, which is probably the most important cause of arteries complications such as cerebral and myocardial infarction. Even though few treatments are available to mitigate plaque rupture, further investigation is required to develop a robust optimized therapeutic method. In this study using rabbit and mouse atherosclerotic models, sinoporphyrin sodium (DVDMS)-mediated sonodynamic therapy reduced abnormal angiogenesis and plaque rupture...
January 2020: JACC. Basic to Translational Science