CCL2 and aortic atherosclerosis: Our previous work showed that KPs improved the circulating lipid profile by increasing “good cholesterol” HDL and decreasing “bad cholesterol” LDL and ox-LDL and protected against aortic atherosclerosis by decreasing oxidative stress (serum ROS, nitric oxide, ox-LDL) and local inflammatory responses (MOMA-2, MCP-1, TNF-α, IL-1β) in high-fat diet (HFD)-fed ApoE−/− mice (Tung et al., 2020).