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Learning from myocarditis: mimicry, chaos and black holes

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Rose, Noel R.·2014·F1000Prime Reports

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Autoimmune myocarditis and its sequel, dilated cardiomyopathy, are major causes of heart failure, especially in children and young adults. We have developed animal models to investigate their pathogenesis by infecting genetically susceptible mice with coxsackievirus B3 or by immunizing them with cardiac myosin or its immunodominant peptide. A number of valuable lessons have emerged from our study of this paradigm of an infection-induced autoimmune disease. We understand more clearly how natural autoimmunity, as an important component of normal physiology, must be recalibrated regularly due to changes caused by infection or other internal and external stimuli. A new normal homeostatic platform will be established based on its evolutionary fitness. A loss of homeostasis with out-of-control normal autoimmunity leads to autoimmune disease. It is signified early on by a spread of an adaptive autoimmune response to novel epitopes and neighboring antigens. The progression from infection to normal, well-balanced autoimmunity to autoimmune disease and on to irreversible damage is a complex, step-wise process. Yet, chaos theory provides hope that the pattern is potentially predictable. Infection-induced autoimmune disease represents a sequence of events heading for a train wreck at the end of the line. Our aim in autoimmune disease research must be to stop the train before this happens.

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  • In lymphocytic myocarditis, autoreactive immune responses, both humoral and cellular, may induce pathogenic inflammation due to tissue damage from repeated viral challenges or molecular mimicry between virus and heart antigens.

    “whether due to tissue damage caused by repeated viral challenges or molecular mimicry between virus and heart antigens, autoreactive immune responses, both humoral and cellular, may induce pathogenic inflammation in lymphocytic myocarditis”

    From Autoimmune Myocarditis, Old Dogs and New Tricks. (2024) · cites this paper as [145]

    “Constructing a model” describes viral injury and molecular mimicry as possible routes to autoimmune myocarditis, and reports that myosin-specific CD4 T cells can induce disease. “Myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy” reports heart-reactive autoantibodies but says their role in pathogenesis remains uncertain. The copy does not establish repeated viral challenges or that both humoral and cellular responses induce pathogenic inflammation. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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Authors
Rose, N. R.
Affiliations
Johns Hopkins University (US)
Corresponding author
Rose, Noel R.
Venue
F1000Prime Reports
Published
2014-05-06
Volume
6
Pages
25-25
ISSN
2051-7599 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2027575580
Cited by
44
References
44
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2
FWCI
0.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • F1000Prime Reports (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R56HL077611, R01HL077611, R01HL067290, R01HL113008)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
Keywords
autoimmune myocarditis, dilated cardiomyopathy, heart failure, coxsackievirus B3, cardiac myosin, immunodominant peptides, animal models, chaos theory, mimicry

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