Collectively, data from experimental atherosclerosis models suggest that T REGs, which are controlled by a variety of humoral and costimulatory signals, could have an atheroprotective role and may ...

CD8+ T cells accumulate in atherosclerotic plaques. LMU researchers identify a crucial signaling pathway—with therapeutic ...

Cardiovascular disease is a general term that refers to many different types of heart problems.Heart disease is the ...

Atherosclerosis is a chronic ... attracted by signals from the foam cells. LDL-C particles and macrophages progressively accumulate into a lipid core, while SMCs produce extracellular matrix ...

This column is the first in a series about risk factors for atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), the cause of several ...

Whiddon College of Medicine. "Recognition of cardiac risk factors and atherosclerosis allows for earlier treatment interventions and risk factor modification in these patients." The results showed ...

Recognition of cardiac risk factors and atherosclerosis allows for earlier treatment interventions and risk factor modification in these patients." Christopher Malozzi, DO, lead author of the ...

Regulatory T cells comprise naturally occurring thymic ... The weight of evidence from studies employing transgenic atherosclerosis-prone mice suggests that regulatory T cells tune down ...