Roles for lipid-activated transcription
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Laszlo Nagy; Attila Szanto
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The initial cellular event in atherosclerosis is the recruitment of monocytes to the vessel wall, and the formation of foam cells by the uptake of modified lipoproteins. The role of macrophages in this process is the uptake and processing of lipoproteins ultimately leading to foam cell formation. Th