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Old HDL learns a new (anti-inflammatory) trick

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In addition to its canonical role in reverse cholesterol transport, high-density lipoprotein can suppress inflammation in target cells through the induction of Atf3, which encodes a well-known transcriptional repressor.

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Figure 1: HDL suppresses TLR ligand–induced inflammation via activation of Atf3.

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  1. Justin I. Odegaard is with the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.,

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  2. the Department of Physiology and the Department of Medicine, Ajay Chawla is with the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.,

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