Immune cytokines and cardiac disease

Secretory products of macrophages.

1987 • 2,670 citations

Elevated Circulating Levels of Tumor Necrosis Factor in Severe Chronic Heart Failure

1990 • 2,566 citations

The natural history of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

1981 • 957 citations

Viral myocarditis. A review.

1980 • 810 citations

The cytokine network

1989 • 785 citations

Interleukin 1 and tumor necrosis factor inhibit cardiac myocyte beta-adrenergic responsiveness.

1989 • 493 citations

Interleukin 1: the first interleukin

1990 • 342 citations

Diagnosis and Classification of Myocarditis by Endomyocardial Biopsy

1983 • 339 citations

Dilated Cardiomyopathies of the Adult

1982 • 321 citations

Involvement of T Lymphocytes in the Pathogenesis of Coxsackie Virus B3 Heart Disease

1974 • 310 citations

SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM AND TAENIA SAGINATA INFECTION BY INTRADUODENAL 'GASTROGRAFIN' INJECTION

1986 • 245 citations

Autoantibodies specific for the cardiac myosin isoform are found in mice susceptible to Coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis.

1987 • 224 citations

Mechanism of cytokine inhibition of beta-adrenergic agonist stimulation of cyclic AMP in rat cardiac myocytes. Impairment of signal transduction.

1990 • 215 citations

Diagnostic relevance of humoral and cytotoxic immune reactions in primary and secondary dilated cardiomyopathy

1983 • 204 citations

Antibodies to ADP-ATP carrier--an autoantigen in myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy--impair cardiac function.

1990 • 195 citations

An animal model of congestive (dilated) cardiomyopathy: dilatation and hypertrophy of the heart in the chronic stage in DBA/2 mice with myocarditis caused by encephalomyocarditis virus.

1982 • 194 citations

DEFICIENT NATURAL KILLER CELL ACTIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY

1982 • 140 citations

Coxsackievirus B-3 myocarditis. Identification of different pathogenic mechanisms in DBA/2 and Balb/c mice.

1986 • 138 citations

Antibodies to the ADP/ATP carrier, an autoantigen in myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy, penetrate into myocardial cells and disturb energy metabolism in vivo.

1989 • 135 citations

The alternative antigen pathway

1989 • 119 citations

Lysis of infected myofibers by coxsackievirus B-3-immune T lymphocytes.

1980 • 114 citations

Cellular Components of Allograft Rejection: Identity, Specificity, and Cytotoxic Function of Cells Infiltrating Acutely Rejecting Allografts

1977 • 110 citations

Cachectin/tumor necrosis factor: An endogenous mediator of shock and inflammation

1986 • 103 citations

Generation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes during coxsackievirus B-3 infection. I. Model and viral specificity1.

1977 • 96 citations

Immunosuppressive therapy in patients with congestive cardiomyopathy and myocardial uptake of gallium-67.

1981 • 87 citations

ALLOSPECIFICITY OF ACTIVATED T CELLS GROWN FROM ENDOMYOCARDIAL BIOPSIES FROM HEART TRANSPLANT PATIENTS

1986 • 76 citations

T-lymphocyte subsets in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

1985 • 74 citations

Immunology: A synthesis

1988 • 59 citations

A new method for assessment of cultured cardiac myocyte contractility detects immune factor-mediated inhibition of beta-adrenergic responses.

1991 • 51 citations

In vivo significance of T cells in the development of Coxsackievirus B3 myocarditis in mice. Immature but antigen-specific T cells aggravate cardiac injury.

1990 • 50 citations

The morphologic spectrum of dilated cardiomyopathy and its relation to immune-response genes

1989 • 44 citations

Generation of Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes during Coxsackievirus B-3 Infection

1977 • 39 citations

Pathogenetic Studies of Cardiac Allograft Rejection Using Inbred Rat Models

1984 • 28 citations

Quantitation of lymphocyte subsets by immunofluorescence flow cytometry in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

1985 • 27 citations

Human cardiac transplantation — evaluation of morphological changes in serial endomyocardial biopsies

1985 • 27 citations

The lymphocyte subpopulations in cyclosporine-treated human heart rejection.

1985 • 24 citations

The role of mononuclear phagocytes in cardiac allograft rejection in the rat

1982 • 20 citations

Immune cytokine inhibition of beta-adrenergic agonist stimulated cyclic AMP generation in cardiac myocytes

1988 • 19 citations

Sensitivity of rat heart endothelial and myocardial cells to alloimmune lymphocytes and to alloantibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity

1979 • 19 citations

Suppressor T lymphocyte function in patients with idiopathic congestive cardiomyopathy.

1987 • 18 citations

Dilated cardiomyopathy associated with natural killer cell deficiency

1988 • 9 citations

Characterization of mononuclear cell infiltrates in human cardiac allografts.

1984 • 8 citations

IL-1 inhibits β-adrenergic respcnsiveness in intact human ventricular myocardium

1991 • 8 citations

Depression of lymphocyte reactivity by serum from patients with dilated cardiomyopathy

1984 • 2 citations