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Atherosclerotic blood vessel cells grow similar to tumors, study reveals

Atherosclerotic blood vessel cells grow similar to tumors, study reveals

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark and Odense University Hospital have studied tissue from patients with atherosclerosis. They found that many of the cells in the diseased tissue carried the same genetic alteration and appeared to originate from a single ancestral cell that had divided repeatedly—a pattern otherwise associated with tumor biology.

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