Immunomodulatory effect of pentoxifylline in suppressing experimental autoimmune myocarditis

Circulation Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 499-504

  Takehana, Hitoshi ^a   Inomata, Takayuki ^a   Niwano, Hiroe ^a   Nishii, Mototsugu ^a   Matsuda, Chieko ^a   Kohno, Ken ^a   Machida, Yoji ^a   Izumi, Tohru ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune disease; Cytokines; Dilated cardiomyopathy; Myocarditis; Pentoxifylline

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; MYOSIN; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; HEART DILATATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL DIVISION; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; MYOCARDITIS; MYOCARDIUM; PENTOXIFYLLINE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0036260996     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.66.499     Document Type: Article

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