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Atherosclerotic lesions grow through recruitment and proliferation of circulating monocytes in a murine model.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Jun 2002
Lessner Susan M, Prado Heather L, Waller Edmund K, Galis Zorina S
Abstract excerpt
Macrophage-derived foam cells in developing atherosclerotic lesions may potentially originate either from recruitment of circulating monocytes or from migration of resident tissue macrophages. In this study, we have determined the source of intimal macrophages in the apoE-knockout mouse flow-cessation/hypercholesterolemia model of atherosclerosis using a bone marrow transplantation approach. We also examined the...
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