Treating atherosclerosis: the potential of Toll-like receptors as therapeutic targets.
Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease with a strong involvement of innate immunity. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are the best-characterized pattern recognition receptors of the innate immune system. Almost all cell types in lesions, inflammatory leukocytes and resident vascular cells alike expres...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2010
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