GAS6 and atherosclerosis: 2019). Gas6, a member of the vitamin K-dependent protein family, is implicated in the regulation of multiple cellular functions after binding to its receptor Axl, a membrane receptor tyrosine kinase (Nakano et al. 1997; Fridell et al. 1998; Yanagita et al. 2001). Some studies have indicated that the Gas6/Axl pathway plays a pivotal role in vascular biology and diseases such as vascular calcification vascular remodelling and atherosclerosis (Korshunov et al. 2006; Hurtado et al. 2010; Son et al. 2010).