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Insulin resistance and atherosclerosis: convergence between metabolic pathways and inflammatory nodes
26 Jul 2013
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For some time now it has been known that diabetes and atherosclerosis are chronic inflammatory diseases that are closely associated with one another and often develop together. In both there is an increase in tissue-wide inflammation that is exhibited by the infiltration of immune cells into the adipose tissue and the vascular walls respectively. The monocyte/macrophage populations that are recruited in these...
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