A myriad of roles of dendritic cells in atherosclerosis.
Yanfang ZhaoJing ZhangWenjie ZhangYuekang XuPublished in: Clinical and experimental immunology (2021)
Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease with break-down of homeostatic immune regulation of vascular tissues. As a critical initiator of host immunity, dendritic cells (DCs) have also been identified in the aorta of healthy individuals and atherosclerotic patients, whose roles in regulating arterial inflammation aroused great interest. Accumulating evidence has now pointed to the fundamental roles for DCs in every developmental stage of atherosclerosis due to their myriad of functions in immunity and tolerance induction, ranging from lipid uptake, efferocytosis and antigen presentation to pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine or chemokine secretion. In this study we provide a timely summary of the published works in this field, and comprehensively discuss both the direct and indirect roles of DCs in atherogenesis. Understanding the pathogenic roles of DCs during the development of atherosclerosis in vascular tissues would certainly help to open therapeutic avenue to the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
Keyphrases
- dendritic cells
- cardiovascular disease
- anti inflammatory
- end stage renal disease
- immune response
- gene expression
- oxidative stress
- regulatory t cells
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- systematic review
- peritoneal dialysis
- fatty acid
- case report
- pulmonary artery
- aortic valve
- coronary artery
- pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonary arterial hypertension