Severe Atherosclerosis and Hypercholesterolemia in Mice Lacking Both the Melanocortin Type 4 Receptor and Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor

• Vera Lede ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vera Lede, Christin Franke

  Affiliation Molecular Biochemistry, Rudolf-Schönheimer-Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Christin Franke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vera Lede, Christin Franke

  Affiliation Molecular Biochemistry, Rudolf-Schönheimer-Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Andrej Meusel,

  Affiliations Molecular Biochemistry, Rudolf-Schönheimer-Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Daniel Teupser,

  Affiliations Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany

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• Albert Ricken,

  Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Joachim Thiery,

  Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Jürgen Schiller,

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Daniel Huster,

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Torsten Schöneberg ,

  * E-mail: schoberg@medizin.uni-leipzig.de (TS); angela.schulz@medizin.uni-leipzig.de (AS)

  Affiliation Molecular Biochemistry, Rudolf-Schönheimer-Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Angela Schulz

  * E-mail: schoberg@medizin.uni-leipzig.de (TS); angela.schulz@medizin.uni-leipzig.de (AS)

  Affiliation Molecular Biochemistry, Rudolf-Schönheimer-Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2336-1573

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