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Table 1 Macrophage subtypes involved in aortic remodeling and aneurysm

From: Diverse roles of macrophage polarization in aortic aneurysm: destruction and repair

Disease modle/objects

Pathway/key regulators

References

Ang II-infused ApoE−/− mice

M2 macrophage accumulation in the aortic wall

Moore et al. [19]

Human aneurysmal infrarenal aortic wall

M1 macrophage was predominant in the adventitia while the M2 macrophages in the intraluminal thrombus/stabilin 1

Boytard et al. [20]

Ang II-infused ApoE−/− mice

Notch1

Hans et al. [21]

Cerebral aneurysms

Macrophage M1/M2 imbalance and upregulation of mast cells

Hasan et al. [22]

Patients with AA

IL-1β was differentially expressed in human plasma with in patients with AA

Batra. et al. [23]

Patients with AA

NF-stimulated gene-6 (TSG-6) elevated in both the plasma and aortic wall of patients with AA

Wang et al. [24]

  1. AngII angiotensin II, IL-1β interleukin-1β, ApoE apolipoprotein E, AA aortic aneurysm, TSG-6 tumor necrosis factor-inducible gene 6