Importance of Humoral and Cellular Immunological Parameters for the Pathogenesis of Viral Myocarditis

Report of the WHO/ISFC task force on the definition and classification of cardiomyopathies.

1980 • 731 citations

THE NATURAL-SELECTION THEORY OF ANTIBODY FORMATION

1955 • 700 citations

Suppressor function of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in normal individuals and in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.

1977 • 436 citations

Natural Antibodies and the Immune Response

1966 • 312 citations

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

1986 • 245 citations

Immunological analysis of auto-antibodies against the adenine nucleotide translocator in dilated cardiomyopathy

1985 • 214 citations

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

1983 • 204 citations

Defective in vitro suppressor cell function in idiopathic congestive cardiomyopathy.

1979 • 178 citations

Diagnostic relevance of humoral and cell-mediated immune reactions in patients with acute viral myocarditis.

1982 • 175 citations

Suppressor Lymphocytes in Young and Aged Humans

1977 • 169 citations

Demonstration of organ specific antibodies against heart mitochondria (anti-M7) in sera from patients with some forms of heart diseases.

1984 • 155 citations

Reduced suppressor cell activity in congestive cardiomyopathy and in myocarditis.

1982 • 145 citations

DEFICIENT NATURAL KILLER CELL ACTIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY

1982 • 140 citations

Immune reactions in tuberculous and chronic constrictive pericarditis

1982 • 59 citations

Humoral immunity in cardiomyopathy.

1983 • 46 citations

Antibodies to Human Sinus Node in Sick Sinus Syndrome

1986 • 42 citations

Cell-mediated Cytotoxicity to Cardiac Cells of Lymphocytes from Patients with Primary Myocardial Disease

1979 • 42 citations

The mitochondrium as antigen in inflammatory heart disease

1987 • 40 citations

Chick embryo plasma membrane from cardiac muscle and cultured heart cells: Isolation procedure and absence of fatty acid-activating enzymes

1977 • 38 citations

Immunologic regulator and effector functions in perimyocarditis, postmyocarditic heart muscle disease and dilated cardiomyopathy

1986 • 38 citations

The use of endomyocardial biopsy in heart failure

1988 • 36 citations

Quantitative assessment of antilaminin antibodies in myocarditis and perimyocarditis

1987 • 35 citations

The sarcolemma as antigen in the secondary immunopathogenesis of myopericarditis

1987 • 31 citations

Evaluation of suppressor immune regulatory function in idiopathic congestive cardiomyopathy and rheumatic heart disease.

1981 • 30 citations

Humoral Immune Reactions in Uremic Pericarditis

1983 • 29 citations

Immunology and molecular biology of cardiovascular diseases

1987 • 23 citations

Antibodies against micro- and intermediate filaments in carditis and dilated cardiomyopathy--are they a diagnostic marker?

1987 • 20 citations

Binding of Immunoglobulins in the Myocardium (Biopsies) in Cardiomyopathies

1980 • 18 citations

Culture and characterization of lymphocytic infiltrates from endomyocardial biopsies of patients with idiopathic myocarditis

1987 • 18 citations

Relevance of antimitochondrial antibodies (anti-M7) in cardiac diseases

1987 • 17 citations

Cytotoxic lymphocytes. Mechanisms of activation and target-cell destruction.

1971 • 16 citations

Four years of experience in endomyocardial biopsy —An immunohistologic approach

1985 • 16 citations

Antimyolemmal antibodies in myocarditis in children

1987 • 16 citations

111In-labelled granulocytes in inflammatory heart diseases

1987 • 14 citations

Cross-reactivity of antibodies to the ADP/ATP translocator of the inner mitochondrial membrane with the cell surface of cardiac myocytes

1987 • 13 citations

Circulating immune complexes in perimyocarditis and infective endocarditis

1987 • 12 citations

Study of immunological mechanism in dilated cardiomyopathy.

1987 • 12 citations

Experimental murine myocarditis after immunization with cardiac membranous proteins

1987 • 11 citations

Cardiac sarcoidosis--clinical and immunoserologic studies

1987 • 11 citations

T suppressor cell activity in (peri)myocarditis and infective endocarditis

1987 • 10 citations

Current status of clinical cardiology

1986 • 10 citations

Cytotoxic Lymphocytes

1971 • 10 citations

Immunohistological investigations in suspected cardiac sarcoidosis

1987 • 8 citations

Morphological and immunological findings in heart biopsies of patients with suspected or treated myocarditis

1987 • 8 citations

Effect of leukotrienes on isolated vital cardiac cells--an in vitro model of cardiocytotoxic mediators in inflammation?

1987 • 7 citations

Lectin binding sites of the sarcolemma and the surrounding interstitial tissue

1987 • 6 citations

Experimental myocarditis in rabbits--cellular effector mechanisms

1987 • 6 citations

Suppressor cell function in dilated cardiomyopathy

1987 • 5 citations

T cell function in idiopathic congestive cardiomyopathy

1987 • 5 citations

Heart-specific antimitochondrial antibody (anti-M7) in a patient with virus-associated peri-myocarditis

1987 • 5 citations