Figure 3

Counterbalancing forces of adaptive immunity in the atherosclerotic plaque: proinflammatory Th1 cells and atheroprotective Treg cells, as proposed in a review article (43). We have since learned that native rather than oxidized LDL serves as a T-cell antigen. Reproduced from (43):

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