Understanding the complexity of the inflammatory response is of critical importance in the search for effective therapies for common vascular chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases with high morbidity and mortality rates worldwide. This spotlight issue is devoted to reviewing knowledge accumulated over the past few years on the molecular and cellular mechanisms operating in vascular inflammation. Throughout the issue there is also a discussion of current animal models of inflammatory vascular diseases in terms of their similarities and differences in comparison with human conditions.
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