β-sitosterol alleviated HFD-induced atherosclerosis by regulating the MAPK/Nrf2/NLRP3 pathway in ApoE^−/− mice

• Weiping Wu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Lishui People’s Hospital, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Lishui, Zhejiang, China

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• Wugao Liu,

  Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Lishui People’s Hospital, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Lishui, Zhejiang, China

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• Ningjun Wu,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Lishui People’s Hospital, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Lishui, Zhejiang, China

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• Chunsheng Qu,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Lishui People’s Hospital, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Lishui, Zhejiang, China

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• Weihua Chu,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China

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• Jing Jin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

  * E-mail: 46805633@qq.com

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Lishui People’s Hospital, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Lishui, Zhejiang, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2172-7801

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