Abstract
Heart failure is a complex neurohumoral and inflammatory syndrome. Recent studies have shown that proinflammatory cytokines (interleukin-1, interleukin-2, interleukin-6, interleukin-10, and tumor necrosis factor) are involved in cardiac depression and in the complex syndrome of heart failure. Understanding the involvement of these cytokines may enable us to reverse cardiac depression and heart failure by the use of monoclonal antibodies directed against specific cytokines to block the downhill progression of heart failure.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 15-27 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Annual Review of Medicine |
| Volume | 52 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2001 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Atrial natriuretic factor
- Dilated cardiomyopathy
- Interleukin-1β
- Interleukin-2
- Interleukin-6
- Major histocompatibility complex
- Monoclonal antibodies
- Tumor necrosis factor α
