IL-33/IL-33R in various types of carotid artery atherosclerotic lesions.

CONCLUSION: The obtained results confirm the importance of IL-33/ST2 axis in the process of atherosclerosis, and indicate its ambiguous function in immune response, whether as proinflammatory cytokine in advanced atherosclerotic lesions, or as profibrotic, in early lesions. PMID: 31132589 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31132589?dopt=Abstract

Source: Cytokine - May 23, 2019 Category: Molecular Biology Authors: Stankovic M, Ljujic B, Babic S, Maravic-Stojkovic V, Mitrovic S, Arsenijevic N, Radak D, Pejnovic N, Lukic ML Tags: Cytokine Source Type: research