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Characterisation of murine cytomegalovirus myocarditis: cellular infiltration of the heart and virus persistence.
Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology - 1 Jun 2002
Lenzo Jason C, Fairweather DeLisa, Cull Vanessa, Shellam Geoffrey R, James Lawson Cassandra M
Abstract excerpt
Myocarditis triggered by a viral infection has integral viral and immunological aspects associated with the pathogenesis of disease. The present study was performed to analyse the cellular inflammatory response in the heart and cytomegalovirus replication during the development of myocarditis in vivo. We examined murine cytomegalovirus in an animal model of myocarditis using both susceptible BALB/c and resistant...
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