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SUBMITTER: Woudstra L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6010496 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heart failure reviews 20180701 4
Infectious myocarditis is the result of an immune response to a microbial infection of the heart. The blood vessels of the heart, both the intramyocardial microvasculature and the large epicardial coronary arteries, play an important role in the pathogenesis of infectious myocarditis. First of all, in addition to cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells of the cardiac (micro)vasculature are direct targets for infection. Moreover, through the expression of adhesion molecules and antigen presenting Major ...[more]