Xuezhikang, an extract from red yeast rice, attenuates vulnerable plaque progression by suppressing endoplasmic reticulum stress-mediated apoptosis and inflammation

• Linghong Shen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rjheben@126.com (BH); rjshenlinghong@126.com (LS)

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Zhe Sun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhe Sun, Shichun Chu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Shichun Chu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhe Sun, Shichun Chu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Zhaohua Cai,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Peng Nie,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Caizhe Wu,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Ruosen Yuan,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Liuhua Hu,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Ben He

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rjheben@126.com (BH); rjshenlinghong@126.com (LS)

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5567-4115

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