Insulin and glucose play a role in foam cell formation and function

Pavel N Shashkin^1,2 , Nitin Jain^1,3 , Yury I Miller⁴ , Benjamin A Rissing¹ , Yuqing Huo^1,5 , Susanna R Keller⁶ , George E Vandenhoff⁶ , Jerry L Nadler⁶ and Thomas M McIntyre²

¹  Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia, 415 Lane Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA

²  Dept. Cell Biology, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA

³  Pfizer, Inc., Groton, CT 06340, USA

⁴  Dept. of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Road, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

⁵  Dept. of Medicine, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

⁶  Dept. of Internal Medicine/Division of Endocrinology, University of Virginia, PO Box 801409, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA