Significance of pericardial cytokines in giant cell myocarditis in rats - Pathological comparison to viral myocarditis in mice

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 977-981

  Nakayama, Y ^a   Kishimoto, C ^a   Shioji, K ^a   Sasayama, S ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Giant cell myocarditis; Pericardial effusion; Viral myocarditis

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; GIANT CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; VIRUS MYOCARDITIS;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; ENTEROVIRUS B, HUMAN; FIBROSIS; GIANT CELLS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MYOCARDITIS; MYOSINS; NECROSIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW;

EID: 0033637421     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.64.977     Document Type: Article

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