Open AccessCCN3: stopping that achy, breaky aorta
Author(s) -
Leask Andrew
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of cell communication and signaling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.329
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1873-961X
pISSN - 1873-9601
DOI - 10.1007/s12079-016-0363-5
Subject(s) - aorta , medicine , cardiology , computer science
Abstract Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) affects between 2 and 8 % of males over the age of 65. Mortality if ruptured is 85 to 90 %, Recent data by Zhang and colleagues (J Clin Invest 126(4):1282–1299 2016) suggest that CCN3 might be used to treat AAA. This Bits and Bytes summarizes these findings.