CHOLESTEROL, AS INDUCERS OF INFLAMMATION IN THE HUMAN BODY

Kazimirko V.K.

• Национальная медицинская академия последипломного образования им. П.Л. Шупика, Киев

Summary. Extracellular cholesterol as a foreign body tissue initiates productive granulomatous inflammation not only in the vascular intima, but in the stroma of the internal organs. It has a similar effect and other sterols, having the same carbon cyclic nucleus as cholesterol.