Human chronic chagasic myocarditis: quantitative study of CD4 + and CD8 + lymphocytes in the inflammatory infiltrate Miocardite chagásica crônica humana: estudo quantitativo dos linfócitos CD4+ e dos CD8+ no exsudato inflamatório

Myocardialexsudate CD4+ andCD8+ lymphocytes were counted in transmural left ventricular free wall frozen sections taken from 10 necropsied chronic cardiac chagasic patients. The cells were labeled with monoclonal antibodies using a streptavidin-biotin technique. We counted: 1) lymphocytes in the tot...

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Main Authors: Sebastião Tostes Junior, Edison Reis Lopes, Fausto Edmundo Lima Pereira, Edmundo Chapadeiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1994-09-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86821994000300002