Study Unlocks Secrets of Cholesterol Buildup in Vessel Walls
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Scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City have gotten closer to solving a longstanding puzzle in cardiovascular medicine: Why immune scavenger cells called macrophages fail to complete their job of ridding blood vessels of dangerous cholesterol plaques. It now appears that the very act of interacting with low-density lipoprotein (LDL or "bad") cholesterol alters the macrophage's ability to move away from the vessel wall. The result is an accumulation of macrophages that contain so much cholesterol that they become swollen "foam cells."
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