Fatty streak formation occurs in human fetal aortas and is greatly enhanced maternal, hypercholesterolemia. Intimal accumulation of low density lipoprotein and its oxidation precede monocyte recruitment into early atheroeclerotic lesions
Journal article published in 1997 by
C. Napoli,
F. P. D'Armiento,
F. P. Mancini,
A. Postiglione,
J. L. Witztum,
G. Palumbo 
,
W. Palinski
,
W. Palinski
