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Resting and Activated Natural Tregs Decrease in the Peripheral Blood of Patients with Atherosclerosis.
Iranian journal of immunology : IJI - 1 Dec 2016
Yazdani Mohammadreza, Khosropanah Shahdad, Hosseini Ahmad, Doroudchi Mehrnoosh
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BACKGROUND: Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting large and medium arteries. CD4+ T cells are known to play a role in the progression of the disease. CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ natural Treg (nTreg) cells seem to have a protective role in the disease and their reduction in acute coronary syndrome is recently shown. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the frequency of nTreg subsets in the peripheral blood of...
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