Upon arrival at sites of injury, monocytes further differentiate into macrophages with distinct functional phenotypes in response to cytokine stimulation, thereby participating in both acute and chronic inflammatory processes within the myocardium (47)
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These processes are important to counteract oxidative stress (Dukhande et al., 2013) by causing an increase in Bcl-2
