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December 2008 (Vol. 1, Issue 3, pages 45-46) ROLE OF THE ENDOCANNABINOID SYSTEM IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS By François Mach, MD, Fabrizio Montecucco, MD, Sabine Steffens, PhD Division of Cardiology, Foundation for Medical Researches, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland Introduction Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease that involves vascular and immune cell types. En