Enhanced expression of type 1 helper T-cell cytokines in the myocardium of active cardiac sarcoidosis

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1303-1307

  Terasaki, Fumio ^a   Ukimura, Akira ^a   Tsukada, Bin ^a   Fujita, Shuichi ^a   Smashima, Takashi ^a   Otsuka, Kaoru ^a   Otsuka, Koji ^a   Kanzaki, Yumiko ^a   Shimomura, Hiroaki ^a   Fujita, Masatoshi ^b   Tanaka, Takao ^a   Kitaura, Yasushi ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Cytokines; Inflammation; Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 8; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOIDOSIS;

ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SARCOIDOSIS; TH1 CELLS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 48749121916     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.72.1303     Document Type: Article

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