Myoid Cell Antibody in Rheumatic Fever

1 January 1973

journal article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Immunological Communications

Vol. 2 (2) , 227-230
https://doi.org/10.3109/08820137309022794

Abstract

Cardiac myofiber band antibodies, cross-reactive with skeletal muscle cross-striations and with the cytoplasm of thymic myoid cells, were demonstrated in sera from patients with acute rheumatlc fever and uncomplicated group A streptococcal infections.

Keywords

FEVER CARDIAC
RHEUMATIC FEVER
CROSS STRIATIONS
CELL ANTIBODY
UNCOMPLICATED GROUP
RHEUMATLC FEVER
THYMIC MYOID
MUSCLE CROSS

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SOME POSSIBLE AUTOIMMUNE MECHANISMS IN RHEUMATIC CARDITIS
The Lancet, 1972
The Thymic "Myoidzellen" and Myasthenia Gravis
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) ,1966