IL17A and atherosclerosis: IL-17 induces the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines (such as IL-6), chemokines (such as IL-8, CXCL-1, CCL-2, CXCL8, and CXCL10), and adhesion molecules (intercellular adhesion molecules 1ICAM1 and vascular cell adhesion molecules 1VCAM1) in vascular endothelial cells and VSMC (Fossiez et al., 1996; Eid et al., 2009; Erbel et al., 2009; Zhu et al., 2011; Erbel et al., 2014; Yuan et al., 2015), leading to atherosclerosis.