Zhengzhi Wu

Modulating the NLRP3/IL-1β Axis in Age-Related Atherosclerosis: Natural Products, Molecular Mechanisms, and Translational Perspectives—A Narrative Review

Atherosclerosis is an age-related immune-metabolic disease in which lipid retention, endothelial dysfunction, innate immune activation, and vascular remodeling interact over decades. In older adults, inflammaging, mitochondrial dysfunction, defective autophagy/mitophagy, and cell...