Chronic myocarditis induced by T cells reactive to a single cardiac myosin peptide: Persistent inflammation, cardiac dilatation, myocardial scarring and continuous myocyte apoptosis

Journal of Autoimmunity

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 359-367

  Ratcliffe, Nora R ^a,b   Hutchins, John ^a   Barry, Brenda ^a   Hickey, William F ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Autoimmunity; Cardiomyopathy; Myocarditis; Myosin; T cell

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; MYOSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART DILATATION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCAR FORMATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 0033679583     PISSN: 08968411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jaut.2000.0432     Document Type: Article

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