This discovery may provide new ways to treat people with atherosclerosis by stopping TTR from cleaving ApoA-I and slowing down the formation of fibrils in blood vessels.

• 依据该项发现,可以通过阻止TTR剪切ApoA-I来减缓血管中纤维的形成速度,这有可能为动脉硬化症患者的治疗提供一条新的途径。