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Comment on “Inflammasome Activation of IL-18 Results in Endothelial Progenitor Cell Dysfunction in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”
Author(s) -
Zhenhua Duan,
Yujing Zhang,
Zhen Zeng,
Faming Pan
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the journal of immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.737
H-Index - 372
eISSN - 1550-6606
pISSN - 0022-1767
DOI - 10.4049/jimmunol.1290031
Subject(s) - inflammasome , endothelial progenitor cell , progenitor cell , immunology , endothelial dysfunction , medicine , progenitor , endothelial stem cell , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , stem cell , inflammation , genetics , in vitro
Recently, Kahlenberg et al. ([1][1]) found that inhibition of caspase-l disrupted IFN-α–mediated endothelial progenitor cell (EPC)/circulating angiogenic cell (CAC) dysfunction in murine and human systems. It lends more information on the role of IFN-α, which might promote atherosclerosis in

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