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. 2022 Jun 8;117(1):30. doi: 10.1007/s00395-022-00937-4

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

Summary of endothelial ACKR3 in atherosclerosis. Graphical summary of EC-ACKR3-mediated processes (created with BioRender.com). Deficiency of ACKR3 in arterial endothelial cells leads to decreased atherosclerotic lesion sizes concomitant with decreased endothelial-immune cell adhesion. Endothelial ACKR3 silencing leads to downregulation of adhesion molecules and phosphorylated ERK1/2, Akt and NF-kB p65, which are inflammatory pathways involved in cell adhesion. Meanwhile, PPAR-γ, which suppresses NF-kB, is upregulated