Activated T-cells drive post-heart attack heart failure

Wednesday, March 1, 2017 - 13:51 in Health & Medicine

Chronic inflammation after a heart attack can promote heart failure and death. Researchers have now shown that activated T-cells — part of the immune system’s inflammatory response — are both necessary and sufficient to produce such heart failure.

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