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Atherosclerosis: keep your macrophages in shape

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Lipid accumulation leads to atherosclerosis partly by eliciting lethal levels of cellular stress in macrophages. A signaling pathway that drives such lipid-induced toxicity is now identified. The findings reveal a chaperoning function that might provide the clue needed to rescue this pathogenic effect (pages 1383–1391).

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Figure 1: A lipid-sensing pathway in macrophages links aP2 to toxic lipid–induced ER stress in the development of atherosclerosis.

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  1. Xueqing Liu and James M. Ntambi are in the Department of Biochemistry, and James M. Ntambi is also in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.,

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Liu, X., Ntambi, J. Atherosclerosis: keep your macrophages in shape. Nat Med 15, 1357–1358 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1209-1357

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