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SPARC promotes ECM degradation through MMPs. SPARC promotes the apoptosis of HUASMCs through the mitochondrial pathway, inhibits the proliferation rate of HUASMCs cells, thereby reducing their cell viability, promotes the secretion of gelatinase (MMP2 and MMP9), and leads to the degeneration of the extracellular matrix and internal elastic layer in the vessel wall
