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Nature Medicine  9, 168 - 169 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nm0203-168

eLiXiRs for restraining inflammation

Mason W. Freeman & Kathryn J. Moore

Lipid Metabolism Unit Department of Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Correspondence should be addressed to Mason W. Freeman freeman@frodo.mgh.harvard.edu
New data implicate the LXRs, a class of nuclear hormone receptors, in reducing inflammation. When activated, these receptors ease inflammation in three mouse models. The results are relevant to atherosclerosis, Alzheimer disease, sepsis and other inflammatory disorders (pages 213−219).

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