TY - GEN AU - Guilherme,Luiza AU - Cury,Patricia AU - Demarchi,Lea M F AU - Coelho,Verônica AU - Abel,Lúcia AU - Lopez,Ana P AU - Oshiro,Sandra Emiko AU - Aliotti,Selma AU - Cunha-Neto,Edécio AU - Pomerantzeff,Pablo M A AU - Tanaka,Ana C AU - Kalil,Jorge TI - Rheumatic heart disease: proinflammatory cytokines play a role in the progression and maintenance of valvular lesions SN - 0002-9440 PY - 2004///1217 KW - Adolescent KW - Adult KW - Aorta KW - pathology KW - Cell Separation KW - Child KW - Cytokines KW - biosynthesis KW - Disease Progression KW - Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay KW - Female KW - Flow Cytometry KW - Heart Valves KW - Humans KW - Immunohistochemistry KW - Inflammation KW - Interleukin-4 KW - metabolism KW - Leukocytes, Mononuclear KW - Male KW - Peptides KW - chemistry KW - Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction KW - Rheumatic Heart Disease KW - Risk KW - T-Lymphocytes N1 - Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0002-9440(10)63415-3 ER -