Junctional Adhesion Molecules: Potential Proteins in Atherosclerosis

Overview

Journal Front Cardiovasc Med

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2022 Jul 25

PMID 35872908

Authors

Junqi Wang

Xiaoping Chen

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Abstract

Junctional adhesion molecules (JAMs) are cell-cell adhesion molecules of the immunoglobulin superfamily and are involved in the regulation of diverse atherosclerosis-related processes such as endothelial barrier maintenance, leucocytes transendothelial migration, and angiogenesis. To combine and further broaden related results, this review concluded the recent progress in the roles of JAMs and predicted future studies of JAMs in the development of atherosclerosis.

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