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A mitochondrial brake on vascular repair

Injured blood vessels are repaired by vascular smooth-muscle cells. It emerges that the protein Fat1 regulates the proliferation of these cells by inhibiting the function of mitochondria. See Letter p.575

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Figure 1: Fat1 goes with the flow.

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de Bock, C., Thorne, R. A mitochondrial brake on vascular repair. Nature 539, 503–504 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20476

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