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Amphiphilic nanoparticles repress macrophage atherogenesis: novel core/shell designs for scavenger receptor targeting and down-regulation.
Molecular pharmaceutics - 4 Aug 2014
Petersen Latrisha K, York Adam W, Lewis Daniel R, Ahuja Sonali, Uhrich Kathryn E, Prud'homme Robert K, Moghe Prabhas V
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Atherosclerosis, an inflammatory lipid-rich plaque disease is perpetuated by the unregulated scavenger-receptor-mediated uptake of oxidized lipoproteins (oxLDL) in macrophages. Current treatments lack the ability to directly inhibit oxLDL accumulation and foam cell conversion within diseased arte...
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