Fending off heart disease by blocking how immune cells ‘smell’ their surroundings

The buildup of fatty substances on the artery walls, known as atherosclerosis, involves inflammatory processes and can cause various cardiovascular diseases. Now, scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have shed light on how targeting garbage-cleaning immune cells called macrophages might reverse or prevent the clogging problem.

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