Chronic administration of mitochondrion-targeted peptide SS-31 prevents atherosclerotic development in ApoE knockout mice fed Western diet

• Meng Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Meng Zhang, Hongting Zhao

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, Drum Tower Clinical Medical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China

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• Hongting Zhao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Meng Zhang, Hongting Zhao

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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• Jing Cai,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, P.R. China

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• Huihui Li,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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• Qi Wu,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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• Tong Qiao ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: likuanyu@nju.edu.cn(KL); qiaotongmail@aliyun.com(TQ)

  Affiliations Department of Vascular Surgery, Drum Tower Clinical Medical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, P.R. China, Department of Vascular Surgery, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, P.R. China

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• Kuanyu Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: likuanyu@nju.edu.cn(KL); qiaotongmail@aliyun.com(TQ)

  Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9738-049X

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