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Endothelial cell activation and neovascularization are prominent in dermatomyositis

Kanneboyina Nagaraju*, Lisa G Rider, Chenguang Fan, Yi-Wen Chen, Megan Mitsak, Rashmi Rawat, Kathleen Patterson, Cecilia Grundtman, Frederick W Miller, Paul H Plotz, Eric Hoffman and Ingrid E Lundberg

Journal of Autoimmune Diseases 2006, 3:2 doi:10.1186/1740-2557-3-2

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Kevin Rostasy   (2006-09-22 15:47)  University of Göttingen email

I read your article with great interest.

Your findings underscore very beautifuly that DM is primarily a vasculopathy and not a myositis in the same fashion as PM.

One question I would like to ask. Is the capillary loss/revascularisation of equal intensity in the endomysium and perimysium?

Thanks in advance

Kevin Rostasy

University of Göttingen

Competing interests

None declared

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