Atherosclerosis is one of the critical reasons for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease,and it is actually a chronic inflammatory disease.A large number of researches demonstrated that an immunological molecule termed CD40 Ligand(CD40L)played an important role in the occurrence,development and plaque-rupture of atherosclerosis by binding to its main receptor-CD40and other newly identified receptors.Their bindings can exhibite various biological roles in different cells of the vascular system.The CD40L...