Association of small dense LDL serum levels and circulating monocyte subsets in stable coronary artery disease.

Atherosclerosis is considered to be an inflammatory disease in which monocytes and monocyte-derived macrophages play a key role. Circulating monocytes can be divided into three distinct subtypes, namely in classical monocytes (CM; CD14++CD16-), intermediate monocytes (IM; CD14++CD16+) and non-classi...

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Main Authors: Konstantin A Krychtiuk, Stefan P Kastl, Stefan Pfaffenberger, Max Lenz, Sebastian L Hofbauer, Anna Wonnerth, Lorenz Koller, Katharina M Katsaros, Thomas Pongratz, Georg Goliasch, Alexander Niessner, Ludovit Gaspar, Kurt Huber, Gerald Maurer, Elisabeth Dostal, Johann Wojta, Stanislav Oravec, Walter S Speidl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4388574?pdf=render