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Monocyte and haematopoietic progenitor reprogramming as common mechanism underlying chronic inflammatory and cardiovascular diseases.

  • Hoogeveen RM Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Nahrendorf M Center for Systems Biology and Department of Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, 55 Fruit Street Boston, MA, USA.
  • Riksen NP Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 8, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  • Netea MG Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 8, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  • de Winther MPJ Department of Medical Biochemistry, Academic Medical Centre, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Lutgens E Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention (IPEK), Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU), Pettenkoferstraße 9, Munich, Germany.
  • Nordestgaard BG The Copenhagen General Population Study and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen University Hospital, Ringvej 75, Herlev, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Neidhart M Center of Experimental Rheumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Schlieren, Switzerland.
  • Stroes ESG Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Catapano AL Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan and IRCCS Multimedica, Via Balzaretti, Milano, Italy.
  • Bekkering S Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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  • 2017-10-26
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  • European heart journal. - 2018
Animals
Atherosclerosis
Cellular Reprogramming
Chronic Disease
Epigenesis, Genetic
Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Humans
Immunity, Innate
Immunologic Memory
Inflammation
Monocytes
Multimodal Imaging
English A large number of cardiovascular events are not prevented by current therapeutic regimens. In search for additional, innovative strategies, immune cells have been recognized as key players contributing to atherosclerotic plaque progression and destabilization. Particularly the role of innate immune cells is of major interest, following the recent paradigm shift that innate immunity, long considered to be incapable of learning, does exhibit immunological memory mediated via epigenetic reprogramming. Compelling evidence shows that atherosclerotic risk factors promote immune cell migration by pre-activation of circulating innate immune cells. Innate immune cell activation via metabolic and epigenetic reprogramming perpetuates a systemic low-grade inflammatory state in cardiovascular disease (CVD) that is also common in other chronic inflammatory disorders. This opens a new therapeutic area in which metabolic or epigenetic modulation of innate immune cells may result in decreased systemic chronic inflammation, alleviating CVD, and its co-morbidities.
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