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Review

Lymphocytic subsets play distinct roles in heart diseases

Jing Wang, Yi Duan, Joost PG Sluijter and Junjie Xiao

Published: 01/01/2019

Abstract

Heart diseases are one of the leading causes of death for humans in the world. Increasing evidence has shown that myocardial injury induced innate and adaptive immune responses upon early cellular damage but also during chronic phases post-injury. The immune cells can not only aggravate the injury but also play an essential role in the induction of wound healing responses, which means they play a complex role throughout the acute inflammatory response and reparative response after cardiac injury. This review will summarize the current experimental and clinical evidence of lymphocytes, one of the major types of immune cells, participate i

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