Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Atherosclerosis / 实用儿科临床杂志

ABSTRACT

Endoplasmic reticulum stress is another kind of sub-cell level stress which is discovered after nuclear stress and mitochond-rial stress.Endothelial cells,macrophages and smooth muscle cells play important roles in the formation of atherosclerosis.Endoplasmic reticulum stress participate the occurrence and development of atherosclerosis by regulating the inflammatory response,lipid metabolism and apoptosis of the above cells.