Mimicry in recognition of cardiac myosin peptides by heart-intralesional T cell clones from rheumatic heart disease

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 176, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 5662-5670

  Faé, Kellen C ^a,b   Da Silva, Danielle Diefenbach ^a   Oshiro, Sandra E ^a,b   Tanaka, Ana C ^a   Pomerantzeff, Pablo M A ^a   Douay, Corinne ^c   Charron, Dominique ^c   Toubert, Antoine ^c   Cunningham, Madeleine W ^d   Kalil, Jorge ^a,b   Guilherme, Luiza ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Millenium Institutes   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; CARDIAC MYOSIN; EPITOPE; GAMMA INTERFERON; M5 PEPTIDE; MYOSIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; PEPTIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MITRAL VALVE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

EID: 33645996366     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.176.9.5662     Document Type: Article

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