ERC Advanced Grant · 2020
Tissue Cytokines at the Nexus of Immune Cell-Cardiac Stromal Cell Interaction
Myocarditis is an acute inflammatory heart disease that can progress to chronic cardiomyopathy and heart failure. Since there is no specific treatment recommendation available for myocarditis and subsequent inflammatory cardiomyopathy, there is an urgent need to dissect the pathological principles underlying cardiac inflammation and to target those molecular pathways that are at the core of the pathological process. My recent research places cross-reactive CD4+ T cells at the center of inflammatory cardiomyopathy pathogenesis. The activation and sustenance of cardiotropic T cells is controlled in immune cell-nurturing niches that are generated by fibroblastic stromal cells through the…
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