Cholesterol loading suppresses the atheroinflammatory gene polarization of human macrophages induced by colony stimulating factors

Abstract In atherosclerotic lesions, blood-derived monocytes differentiate into distinct macrophage subpopulations, and further into cholesterol-filled foam cells under a complex milieu of cytokines, which also contains macrophage-colony stimulating factor (M-CSF) and granulocyte–macrophage-colony s...

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Main Authors: Jani Lappalainen, Nicolas Yeung, Su D. Nguyen, Matti Jauhiainen, Petri T. Kovanen, Miriam Lee-Rueckert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84249-y