Identification of cardiac myosin peptides capable of inducing autoimmune myocarditis in BALB/c mice

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2057-2062

  Pummerer, Christian L ^a   Luze, Kerstin ^a   Grässl, Gerhard ^a   Bachmaier, Kurt ^a   Offner, Felix ^a   Burrell, Sarah K ^c   Lenz, Douglas M ^c   Zamborelli, Thomas J ^c   Penninger, Josef M ^b   Neu, Nikolaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Cardiology; Epitopes; Isoforms; Myositis

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MYOSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; HEART DILATATION; MOUSE; MYOCARDITIS; MYOSITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; EPITOPE MAPPING; IMMUNIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; MYOSINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS;

EID: 0029913380     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI118642     Document Type: Article

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