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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021

The Active Isoforms of MGP Are Expressed in Healthy and Varicose Veins without Calcification.

Simona R Gheorghe, Cees Vermeer, Gabriel Olteanu, Ciprian N Silaghi, Alexandra M Crăciun

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Simona R GheorgheDepartment of Medical Biochemistry, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Hațieganu", 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-1492-6977
Cees VermeerCardiovascular Research Institute CARIM, Maastricht University, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Gabriel Olteanu2nd Surgery Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Hațieganu", 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Ciprian N SilaghiDepartment of Medical Biochemistry, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Hațieganu", 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-0212-726X
Alexandra M CrăciunDepartment of Medical Biochemistry, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Hațieganu", 400349 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID 0000-0003-3703-1874
Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy · ROMaastricht University · NL

Funding

Ministerul Cercetării și Inovării 2/2019 (DARKFOOD), within PNCDI III
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Matrix Gla protein (MGP), a local inhibitor of tissue mineralization, is associated with vascular calcification. Depending on the carboxylation and phosphorylation status, MGP has active conformations, e.g., carboxylated MGP (cMGP) and phosphorylated MGP (pMGP), but also inactive conformations, e.g., uncarboxylated MGP (ucMGP) and dephosphorylated MGP (dpMGP). Our purpose was to assess the presence of all MGP conformations in healthy veins (HV) and varicose veins (VV), concurrently with the analysis of circulating total MGP (tMGP) before and after the surgical stripping of VV. We collected samples from the great saphenous vein, considered as control group, and tissue from VV, designated as VV group. Plasma levels of tMGP were significantly decreased after the surgical removal of the VV (before 59.5 ± 17.2 vs. after 38.1 ± 11.3,

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calcificationimmunohistochemistrymatrix Gla proteinvaricose veins

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PMID34945192
PMCPMC8707122
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