A New Strategy to Counter Insulin Damage in Coronary Artery Disease (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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A New Strategy to Counter Insulin Damage in Coronary Artery Disease (1 of 2)

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Stained images of oxygen production (red) in response to insulin treatment in blood vessel tissue from patients with atherosclerosis. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Apr. 29, 2020, issue of <i>Science Translational Medicine</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by I. Akoumianakis at University of Oxford in Oxford, UK; and colleagues was titled, "Insulin-induced vascular redox dysregulation in human atherosclerosis is ameliorated by dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibition."

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[Credit: I. Akoumianakis <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2020)]

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