Auto-antigenic protein-DNA complexes stimulate plasmacytoid dendritic cells to promote atherosclerosis

Inflammation has been closely linked to auto-immunogenic processes in atherosclerosis. Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) are specialized to produce type-I interferons in response to pathogenic single-stranded nucleic acids, but can also sense self-DNA released from dying cells or in neutrophil ext...

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