highly significantp<0.01
DKO transplanted animals exhibited also a highly significant increase in the amount of foam cells compared to control animals (2.88±0.19% [n = 5] compared to WT 0.20±0.07% [n = 7]; p<0.01), which, however, was less severe than in single ABCA1 KO transplanted mice (p<0.001) ( Fig. 3A ).