Mechanistic Insights into the Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein-Induced Atherosclerosis

Figure 5

Early and late atherosclerotic lesions. The figure is reproduced from Glass and Witztum [56] (under the Creative Commons Attribution License/public domain) “(Reprinted (Atherosclerosis: The Road Ahead) with permission from Elsevier (License number 4825741069515)).”(a) Cross section of a fatty streak lesion from the aorta of a cholesterol-fed rabbit immune stained for a macrophage-specific marker (micrograph courtesy of Wulf Palinski). (b) Cross section through a human coronary artery at the level of a thrombotic atherosclerotic lesion causing fatal myocardial infarction.

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