P2X7 ,

Peter Stachon1, Adrian Heidenreich2, Julian Merz2

  • 1From Department of Cardiology and Angiology I, Heart Center Freiburg University, Germany (P.S., A.H., J.M., I.H., D.W., F.W., S.v.G., P.A., C.H., N.H., J.R., C.v.z.M., C.B., A.Z.); and Faculty of Medicine (P.S., A.H., J.M., I.H., D.W., F.W., S.v.G., P.A., C.H., N.H., J.R., C.v.z.M., C.B., M.I., A.Z.) and Faculty of Biology (J.M.) and Department of Pneumology (N.E., M.I.), University of Freiburg, Germany. peter.stachon@universitaets-herzzentrum.de.

Circulation
|April 6, 2017
PubMed
まとめ

純粋性受容体P2X7 (P2X7) 軸は炎症体の活性化と動脈硬化に重要な役割を果たします. P2X7のシグナル伝達を遮断すると,プラークの炎症と実験的な動脈硬化が減少し,P2X7が潜在的な治療標的であることを示唆する.

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