Pathological importance of anti-G-protein coupled receptor autoantibodies.

• Anti-cardiac receptor autoantibodies have been studied intensively last 10 years. A growing evidence, both in vitro and in vivo and both clinical and experimental studies, have supported that these anti-cardiac receptor autoantibodies, mainly anti-beta1 adrenoceptor autoantibodies, play a very important pathophysiological role, at least partly, in the development of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. This concise review article will only summarize studies done in rabbits with consideration of other articles in this focused issue.

Subject headings

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Medicinska och farmaceutiska grundvetenskaper -- Mikrobiologi inom det medicinska området (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Basic Medicine -- Microbiology in the medical area (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Animals

Arrhythmia

immunology

physiopathology

Autoantibodies

immunology

Autoimmune Diseases

complications

immunology

physiopathology

Cardiomyopathy

Dilated

immunology

physiopathology

Humans

Prevalence

Receptors

Adrenergic

beta-1

immunology

Receptors

G-Protein-Coupled

immunology

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art (subject category)