Role of interleukin-6 in regulation of immune responses to remodeling after myocardial infarction

Heart Failure Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 25-38

  Huang, Mingyuan ^a   Yang, Du ^a   Xiang, Meixiang ^a   Wang, Jianan ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Immunity; Inflammation; Interleukin 6; Ventricular remodeling

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ANIMAL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DENDRITIC CELL; FIBROBLAST; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DENDRITIC CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MONOCYTES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM; NEUTROPHILS; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 84928893052     PISSN: 13824147     EISSN: 15737322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10741-014-9431-1     Document Type: Article

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