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Cardiac cell-specific apoptotic and cytokine responses to reovirus infection: determinants of myocarditic phenotype.
Journal of cardiac failure - 1 Aug 2009
Miyamoto Shelley D, Brown R D, Robinson Bridget A, Tyler Kenneth L, Long Carlin S, Debiasi Roberta L
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BACKGROUND: The pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying viral myocarditis are not well defined. As a result, effective treatments do not exist and viral myocarditis remains a potentially lethal infection of the heart. METHODS AND RESULTS: We used cultured rat cardiac myocytes and fibroblasts to in...
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