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SUBMITTER: Wang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6557664 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Jing J Yannie Paul J PJ Ghosh Siddhartha S SS Ghosh Shobha S
FEBS letters 20190508 11
A causal relationship exists between macrophage cholesterol levels and inflammation, for example, Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) secretion. A decrease in intracellular K<sup>+</sup> is essential for inflammasome activation/IL-1β secretion and, herein, we examined the hypothesis that cellular cholesterol affects K<sup>+</sup> -channel activity and K<sup>+</sup> -efflux using mouse peritoneal macrophages (MPMs) and human/THP1 macrophages. An increase in cellular cholesterol led to a significant increase i ...[more]