CPPs	Calciprotein particles
MAC	Medial arterial calcification
ESRD	End-stage renal disease
ECs	Endothelial cells
CKD	Chronic kidney disease
EndoMT	Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition
HCAEC	Human coronary artery endothelial cells
HITAEC	Human internal thoracic artery endothelial cells
PBMCs	Peripheral blood mononuclear cells
VCAM	Vascular cell adhesion molecule
ICAM	Intercellular cell adhesion molecule
KLF	Krüppel-like factor
YAP	Yes-associated protein
CPP-P	Primary calciprotein particles
CPP-S	Secondary calciprotein particles
MPPs	Magnesiprotein particles
FITC	Fluorescein isothiocyanate
PBS	Phosphate-buffered saline
EtBr	Ethidium bromide
SELE	E-selectin
RIPA	Radioimmunoprecipitation assay
RNA	Ribonucleic acid
CD	Cluster of differentiation
VE-cadherin	Vascular endothelial cadherin
GAPDH	Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase
Hist H3	Histone H3
RT-qPCR	Reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction
VSMCs	Vascular smooth muscle cells
N-cadherin	Neural cadherin
SNAI	Snail family transcriptional repressor
TWIST	Twist family basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor
ZEB	Zinc finger E-box binding homeobox
CDH	Cadherin
ACTA	Actin alpha
KDR	Kinase insert domain receptor
PECAM	Platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule
αSMA	Alpha smooth muscle actin
NRF	Nuclear factor erythroid 2–related factor
pYAP	Phosphorylated YAP
TAZ	Transcriptional co-activator with PDZ binding motif
pTAZ	Phosphorylated TAZ
NFE2L2	Nuclear factor erythroid 2 like 2
WWTR	WW domain containing transcription regulator
MSR	Macrophage scavenger receptor
ApoE	Apolipoprotein E
LDLR	Low-density lipoprotein receptor
OD	Optical density
cDNA	Complementary DNA
ACTB	Beta actin
B2M	Beta-2-microglobulin
TBP	TATA-binding protein
PVDF	Polyvinylidene difluoride
FDR	False discovery rate