Because of inflammatory chemokines, leukocytes from the blood are chemoattracted into the heart. In the aging heart environment, some of the infiltrating monocytes polarize into pro-fibrotic or ...

The induced atherosclerotic lesions contained macrophages as indicated by RAM-11 staining (Figure 1). ROIs of the aorta identified by MR imaging were correlated with FDG PET images of the same ...