Humoral Response To Tissue Injury

A recent article concluding that a humoral response to tissue injury is important in this disorder, and that the idea that PM is exclusively a T cell mediated myopathy requires revision. (Cappelletti, Morandi, Mora, Salerno, Confalonieri, Mantegazza Bernasconi. Feb. 2012) [1]

Footnotes:

1. Cristina Cappelletti, Morandi L,Marina M,Salerno F,Confalonieri P,Montegazza R,Bernasconi P. Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies: A Review of Immunopathological Features and Current Models of Pathogenesis.. Fondazione Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”, Milan, Italy, Department of Neurology IV – Neuromuscular Diseases and Neuroimmunology,, 2012 as found at VIEW