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Martínez-Rodríguez JE, Munné-Collado J, Rasal R, Cuadrado E, Roig L, Ois A, Muntasell A, Baro T, Alameda F, Roquer J, López-Botet M

Expansion of the NKG2C+ natural killer-cell subset is associated with high-risk carotid atherosclerotic plaques in seropositive patients for human cytomegalovirus.

Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol.. 2013 Nov;33(11):2653-9, PMID: 23968979

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a pathogen involved in the development and progression of atherosclerosis, promotes in some individuals a marked reconfiguration of the natural killer (NK)-cell compartment whose hallmark is a persistent expansion of a peripheral blood NK-cell subset expressing the CD94/NKG2C NK receptor. We aimed to evaluate whether the HCMV-associated NK-cell compartment reconfiguration is related to carotid atherosclerotic plaque (CAP) instability.

PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE

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