Experimental autoimmune myocarditis and its pathomechanism

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Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 274-278

  Izumi, Tohru ^b   Takehana, Hitoshi ^c   Matsuda, Chieko ^c   Yokoyama, Hiroyuki ^c   Kohno, Ken ^c   Suzuki, Keisuke ^c   Inomata, Takayuki ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Autoimmune myocarditis; Autoreactive T cell; Cardiac dendritic cell; Causative epitope

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; MYOSIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; NITRIC OXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; HELPER CELL; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CYTOKINES; DENDRITIC CELLS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITOPES; HUMANS; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0033947691     PISSN: 03409937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000590050020     Document Type: Article

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