HMGB1 and multiminicore myopathy: Although the importance of BLTR1 in vascular smooth muscle cells in the intimal hyperplasia has been reported previously (16), we expected the potential role for BLTR1 in monocytes in vascular inflammation on the basis of our in vitro data in which the BLTR1 signaling in monocytes played a pivotal role in MMD induced by HMGB1.