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Interleukin-18/interleukin-18 binding protein signaling modulates atherosclerotic lesion development and stability.
Circulation research - 28 Sept 2001
Mallat Z, Corbaz A, Scoazec A, Graber P, Alouani S, Esposito B, Humbert Y, Chvatchko Y, Tedgui A
Abstract excerpt
Interleukin (IL)-18 is the interferon-gamma-inducing factor and has other proinflammatory properties. The precise role of IL-18 in immunoinflammatory diseases remains poorly understood. In this study, we show that in vivo electrotransfer of an expression-plasmid DNA encoding for murine IL-18 binding protein (BP) (the endogenous inhibitor of IL-18) prevents fatty streak development in the thoracic aorta of apoE...
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