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Immunity, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease

Atherosclerosis, the major cause of cardiovascular disease (CVD), is a chronic inflammatory condition with immune competent cells in lesions producing mainly pro-inflammatory cytokines. Dead cells and oxidized forms of low density lipoproteins (oxLDL) are abundant. The major direct cause of CVD appe...

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Autor principal: Frostegård, Johan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3658954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23635324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-11-117