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Novel model of constrictive pericarditis associated with autoimmune heart disease in interferon-gamma-knockout mice.
Circulation - 2 Nov 2004
Afanasyeva Marina, Georgakopoulos Dimitrios, Fairweather DeLisa, Caturegli Patrizio, Kass David A, Rose Noel R
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BACKGROUND: Constrictive pericarditis represents a serious hemodynamic syndrome that may lead to heart failure. Studies of its pathophysiological mechanisms have been impeded by the lack of an animal model. METHODS AND RESULTS: Cardiac myosin-induced experimental autoimmune myocarditis in interferon (IFN)-gamma-knockout (KO) mice results in increased cardiac inflammation and development of severe grossly...
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