Diverse Roles of Macrophages in Atherosclerosis: From Inflammatory Biology to Biomarker Discovery

• Päätekijät: Ting Gui (Tekijä), Aiko Shimokado (Tekijä), Yujing Sun (Tekijä), Takashi Akasaka (Tekijä), Yasuteru Muragaki (Tekijä)
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• Julkaistu: Hindawi Limited, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Cardiovascular disease, a leading cause of mortality in developed countries, is mainly caused by atherosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory disease. Macrophages, which differentiate from monocytes that are recruited from the blood, account for the majority of leukocytes in atherosclerotic plaques. Apop...