“…In this sense, key factors in the vasculopathy and inflammatory response include vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), one of the main responsibles of the firm adhesion of leukocytes to the endothelium ( Dessein et al, 2005 ; Navarro-Hernández et al, 2009 ; Murdaca et al, 2012 ; Steyers and Miller, 2014 ; Wang et al, 2015 ; Kong et al, 2018 ), and the monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), a chemokine that regulates the endothelial transmigration of monocyte ( Hayashida et al, 2001 ; Rantapää-Dahlqvist et al, 2007 ; Deshmane et al, 2009 ; Dessein et al, 2013 ; Yang et al, 2016 ). Besides, asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is also involved in these disorders, regulating the vascular tone and inhibiting the nitric oxide synthesis ( Dimitroulas et al, 2012 ; Murdaca et al, 2012 ; Steyers and Miller, 2014 ; Dimitroulas and Kitas, 2019 ; Zhao et al, 2019 ).…”