Regulating heart repair with cardiac-specific T lymphocytes
- 1 November 2019
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Society for Clinical Investigation in JCI Insight
- Vol. 129 (11), 4587-4589
- https://doi.org/10.1172/jci132441
Abstract
Cardiac tissue necrosis secondary to coronary artery occlusion is one of the most common and deadly sterile injuries in developed countries. In this issue of the JCI, Rieckmann et al. identified and characterized antigen-specific CD4(+) T helper (Th) cells that developed in the context of myocardial infarction (MI) in mice. They showed that myosin heavy chain alpha (MYHCA) is a dominant cardiac autoantigen and that T cells with T cell receptor (TCR) specificity to MYHCA acquired a Treg phenotype when adoptively transferred into infarcted mice, which mediated a cardioprotective healing response. Thus, Rieckmann et al. showed that an acute ischemic insult to the heart, which induces sterile inflammation, promoted, rather than limited, protective T cell autoimmunity. Notably, strategies that support an antigen-specific Treg response may limit the immune-inflammatory response and promote cardiac repair after acute MI.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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