CHRNA7 and atherosclerosis: Our results showing that early lesions of female LDLRKO mice have similar size and content of foam cells regardless of the expression status of α7nAChR in the bone marrow, are in agreement with the findings of Kooijman et al. [14] and indicate that in the inflammatory setting of atherosclerosis macrophage α7nAChR does not have a major role in regulation of lipid handling and/or accumulation.