LYPLA1 and atherosclerosis: As such, we concluded that the inhibition of miR-138 expression could increase APT1 expression in both the cell membrane and the cytoplasm under normal conditions and ox-LDL induced cell membrane, while APT1 overexpression in the ox-LDL group prevented the inhibitory effect of miR-138 on APT1, which reaffirmed the increased expression of APT1 in the atherosclerosis models.