Presence of increased inflammatory infiltrates accompanied by activated dendritic cells in the left atrium in rheumatic heart disease

Mikio Shiba; Yasuo Sugano; Yoshihiko Ikeda; Hideshi Okada; Toshiyuki Nagai; Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda; Satoshi Yasuda; Hisao Ogawa; Toshihisa Anzai

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0203756

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Presence of increased inflammatory infiltrates accompanied by activated dendritic cells in the left atrium in rheumatic heart disease

Mikio Shiba,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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Yasuo Sugano ,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: ysugano@ncvc.go.jp

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan, Departement of Cardiovascular Medicine, Keiyu Hospital, Yokohama, Japan

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6199-6030

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Yoshihiko Ikeda,

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
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Hideshi Okada,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu, Japan
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Toshiyuki Nagai,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda,

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
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Satoshi Yasuda,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
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Hisao Ogawa,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
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Toshihisa Anzai

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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Presence of increased inflammatory infiltrates accompanied by activated dendritic cells in the left atrium in rheumatic heart disease

Mikio Shiba,
Yasuo Sugano,
Yoshihiko Ikeda,
Hideshi Okada,
Toshiyuki Nagai,
Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda,
Satoshi Yasuda,
Hisao Ogawa,
Toshihisa Anzai

Published: September 27, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203756

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