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Pentraxins and Atherosclerosis

E Barbati, B Bottazzi, AL Catapano... - ... and Atherosclerosis, 2012 - Springer Pentraxins are a family of evolutionarily conserved multifunctional patternrecognition proteins characterized by a cyclic multimeric structure. Based on the primary structure of the subunit, the pentraxins are divided into two groups: short pentraxins and long pentraxins. ...