Ticagrelor induces paraoxonase-1 (PON1) and better protects hypercholesterolemic mice against atherosclerosis compared to clopidogrel

• Hasseri Halim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hasseri Halim, Decha Pinkaew

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: Faculty of Pharmacy, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Decha Pinkaew ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hasseri Halim, Decha Pinkaew

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Preedakorn Chunhacha,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Patuma Sinthujaroen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Thailand.

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Perumal Thiagarajan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Ken Fujise

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

  * E-mail: Ken.Fujise@utmb.edu

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, The Institute of Translational Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6763-8055

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