Cardiac myosin autoimmunity in acute Chagas' heart disease

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 5643-5649

  Leon, J S ^a   Godsel, L M ^a   Wang, K ^a   Engman, D M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; FREUND ADJUVANT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; MYOSIN; MYOSIN ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BRAZIL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION; MALE; MOUSE; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYOCARDITIS; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0034861163     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.9.5643-5649.2001     Document Type: Article

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