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Their functional plasticity, shifting between inflammatory, repair, or anti-inflammatory states, depends on metabolic adaptation and lipid remodeling, including choline uptake and phospholipid reorganization ( 2.1.1 Macrophages and dendritic cells Macrophage functions, such as cytokine and chemokine secretion, phagocytosis, and organelle biogenesis, are intricately linked to membrane phospholipid composition, curvature, and charge ( Figure 3 )
Previous study has found that RAS blockers can reduce proteinuria and tubulointerstitial fibrosis not only through their hemodynamic/antihypertensive effects but also through the inhibition of NF-B, MCP1 gene expression, and macrophage infiltration, thereby exerting anti-inflammatory/antifibrotic effects in the STZ-induced diabetic rat model (194)