Virus-Induced Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Causes Cardiomyopathy Through Eliciting Inflammatory Responses in the Heart

CONCLUSIONS: Our data suggest that viral ARDS promotes cardiac inflammation by expanding the CCR2+ macrophage subset, and the associated cardiac phenotypes in mice can be elicited by activating the host immune system even without viral presence in the heart.PMID:38506045 | DOI:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.066433

Source: Circulation - March 20, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Jana Grune Geetika Bajpai Pervin T ülin Ocak Eva Kaufmann Kyle Mentkowksi Steffen Pabel Nina Kumowski Fadi E Pulous Kim A Tran David Rohde Shuang Zhang Yoshiko Iwamoto Gregory R Wojtkiewicz Claudio Vinegoni Ursula Green Filip K Swirski James R Stone Joch Source Type: research