In atherosclerosis, the vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC ... perhaps by accelerating lipid accumulation or macrophage chemotaxis. Proliferation is probably an early event, followed by a chronic ...

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Ruijin Hospital (W.M., K.J., H.C., Z.L., H.Z., H.X., L.Z., Z.W., Y.C., H.S., L.Y., Z.C., L.L., R.Z., X.Y.), Shanghai Jiao Tong ...

[1] Vascular calcification in patients with chronic kidney disease on dialysis in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study ...

To uncover age-related alterations that may impair atherosclerosis regression, we investigated the response of young and old macrophages to atherogenic lipoproteins in vitro ... on the capacity for ...

was shown to have a statistically significant difference between patients with calcification and non-calcified groups. In terms of OCT findings, the calcified group showed a greater proportion of ...

were identified with mitral annular calcification and 815 (9%) with a calcified aortic valve, of whom 515 (6.3%) had stenosis with a minimal aortic valve gradient of 16 mm Hg. In these patients, ...

Macrophages exist in most tissues of the body, where they perform various functions at the same time equilibrating with other cells to maintain immune responses in numerous diseases including cancer.

Vascular diseases pose major health challenges ... The senescence of immune cells, including monocytes, macrophages, foam cells, and T lymphocytes, plays a critical role in the formation, development ...

Dystrophic calcifications of the aortic valve may cause symptomatic aortic stenosis and account for a significant portion of patients who undergo elective valve replacement. Calcifications appearing ...