Tumour Necrosis Factor Receptor-Associated Protein 1 (TRAP1): A Pivotal Regulator of Smooth Muscle Cell Senescence and Atherosclerosis through Metabolic Reprogramming

Acknowledgments

We thank all members of the Zhang lab for their helpful comments and discussion.

Author Contributions

C.M. and W.Z. wrote the manuscript. C.M. prepared the figure. The authors read and approved the manuscript.

Ethics Statement

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Funding

This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.82470499,82270457), the Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province of China (No.tstp20240852).

Declaration of Competing Interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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