Organisms respond to oxidative injury by orchestrating a stress response to prevent further
damage. An increase in the intracellular levels of antioxidant agents, and at the same time …

Atherosclerosis is a chronic immune-inflammatory disease in which the interactions of
monocytes with activated endothelium are crucial events leading to atherosclerotic alteration …

The homing of proinflammatory (M1) and the “alternatively activated” anti-inflammatory (M2)
macrophages plays a different role in the process of inflammation. Chemokines are the …

Lipid crystallization is ubiquitous in nature, observed in biological structures as well as in
commercial products and applications. In a dehydrated state most of the lipids form well …

Imaging and targeted delivery to macrophages are promising new approaches to study and
treat a variety of inflammatory diseases such as atherosclerosis. In this manuscript, we have …

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in
both the developed and developing world. Rhizoma coptidis (RC), known as Huang Lian in …

Owing to their unique biological functions, hyaluronic acid (HA) and its derivatives have
been explored extensively for biomedical applications such as tissue engineering, drug …

Atherosclerosis is the root of approximately one‐third of global mortalities. Nanotechnology
exhibits splendid prospects to combat atherosclerosis at the molecular level by engineering …

Purpose.: Intermediate and large drusen usually precede advanced age-related macular
degeneration (AMD). There is little information about which genes influence drusen …

We previously reported the inhibitory action of interleukin-6 (IL-6) on B lymphopoiesis with
SHIP−/− mice and showed that IL-6 biases lineage commitment toward myeloid cell fates in …