Interleukin-13 protects from atherosclerosis and modulates plaque composition by skewing the macrophage phenotype

EMBO Molecular Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1072-1086

  Cardilo Reis, Larissa ^a,b   Gruber, Sabrina ^a,b   Schreier, Sabine M ^a   Drechsler, Maik ^c   Papac Milicevic, Nikolina ^a,b   Weber, Christian ^c   Wagner, Oswald ^a   Stangl, Herbert ^a   Soehnlein, Oliver ^c   Binder, Christoph J ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternatively activated macrophages (M2); Atherosclerosis; Cytokines; Interleukin 13; Oxidized LDL

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 13; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ANIMALS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; INTERLEUKIN-13; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE;

EID: 84867043765     PISSN: 17574676     EISSN: 17574684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/emmm.201201374     Document Type: Article

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