Oxidant resistant human apolipoprotein A-I functions similarly to the unmodified human isoform in delaying atherosclerosis progression and promoting atherosclerosis regression in hyperlipidemic mice

• Emmanuel Opoku ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Opoku, Stela Berisha

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

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2816-7761

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• Stela Berisha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Opoku, Stela Berisha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Center for Human Genetics, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Gregory Brubaker,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Peggy Robinet,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: ProEd Communications, Inc., Beachwood, Ohio, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Jonathan D. Smith

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

  * E-mail: smithj4@ccf.org

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0415-386X

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