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Figure 3 The amount of CD3-positive T-cells infiltrating the endomyocardial biopsies from patients with csIHD with a normal (n = 32) or an altered ANTitp (n = 21). According to Kühl et al. (16), the normal range of intramyocardial T-cell infiltration was defined to be <7 cell/mm2. An excess of this limit, which is marked by the broken line in the graph, shows a pathological infiltration with T-cells. aANTitp = altered adenine nucleotide translocator isoform transcription pattern; csIHD = clinically suspected inflammatory heart disease; nANTitp = normal adenine nucleotide translocator isoform transcription pattern.
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