Eosinophils improve cardiac function after myocardial infarction

Blood eosinophil (EOS) counts may serve as risk factors for human coronary heart diseases. Here the authors show that increased circulating and myocardial EOS after myocardial infarction play a cardioprotective role by reducing cardiomyocyte death, cardiac fibroblast activation and fibrosis, and end...

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Main Authors: Jing Liu, Chongzhe Yang, Tianxiao Liu, Zhiyong Deng, Wenqian Fang, Xian Zhang, Jie Li, Qin Huang, Conglin Liu, Yunzhe Wang, Dafeng Yang, Galina K. Sukhova, Jes S. Lindholt, Axel Diederichsen, Lars M. Rasmussen, Dazhu Li, Gail Newton, Francis W. Luscinskas, Lijun Liu, Peter Libby, Jing Wang, Junli Guo, Guo-Ping Shi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19297-5