Atherosclerosis, a disease characterized by the accumulation of lipids and inflammatory cells in the arterial wall, is a ...

A research team revealed that insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 6 (IGFBP6) serves as a potential therapeutic target for suppressing endothelial inflammation and atherosclerosis.

Atherosclerosis involves multiple processes including endothelial dysfunction, inflammation, vascular proliferation and matrix alteration. Vascular proliferation contributes to the pathobiology of ...

Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA (I.A.T., K.I.B., C.X., D.W.K., Y.K., A.A ...

Monocytes are circulating leukocytes of innate immunity derived from the bone marrow that interact with endothelial cells under physiological or pathophysiological conditions to orchestrate ...

Mitophagy plays a significant role in the homeostasis and physiological function of vascular endothelial cells, vascular smooth muscle cells, and macrophages, and is involved in the development of ...

In the U.S., one of every three deaths is caused by CVD, which is over 835,000 deaths per year It is called the silent killer because atherosclerosis (when blood vessels become thick and stiff) is ...

Diabetic patients frequently suffer from retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy and accelerated atherosclerosis. The loss of endothelial function precedes these vascular alterations. Here we report ...

A research team at Toho University, has revealed that cadmium, a toxic heavy metal, increases the synthesis of hyaluronan in vascular endothelial cells. Their study has also identified that this ...