Cellular immune mechanisms in myosin-induced myocarditis

C Pummerer, G Grässl, N Neu - European heart journal, 1995 - academic.oup.com
C Pummerer, G Grässl, N Neu
European heart journal, 1995academic.oup.com
Cardiac myosin-induced myocarditis proved to be a valuable virus-free murine model with
which to investigate auto-immunological mechanisms in inflammatory heart disease. The
disease was shown to be T cell-mediated. In this contribution the functional role ofCD4 and
CD8 molecules and the conditions that are required to make the cardiac tissue susceptible
to an autoimmune attack are discussed
Abstract
Cardiac myosin-induced myocarditis proved to be a valuable virus-free murine model with which to investigate auto-immunological mechanisms in inflammatory heart disease. The disease was shown to be T cell-mediated. In this contribution the functional role ofCD4 and CD8 molecules and the conditions that are required to make the cardiac tissue susceptible to an autoimmune attack are discussed
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