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SUBMITTER: Rombouts M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4804096 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rombouts Miche M Ammi Rachid R Van Brussel Ilse I Roth Lynn L De Winter Benedicte Y BY Vercauteren Sven R SR Hendriks Jeroen M H JM Lauwers Patrick P Van Schil Paul E PE De Meyer Guido R Y GR Fransen Erik E Cools Nathalie N Schrijvers Dorien M DM
Mediators of inflammation 20160309
Atherosclerosis remains the leading cause of death and disability in our Western society. To investigate whether the dynamics of leukocyte (sub)populations could be predictive for plaque inflammation during atherosclerosis, we analyzed innate and adaptive immune cell distributions in blood, plaques, and lymphoid tissue reservoirs in apolipoprotein E-deficient (ApoE(-/-)) mice and in blood and plaques from patients undergoing endarterectomy. Firstly, there was predominance of the CD11b(+) convent ...[more]