After myocardial infarction, inflammatory cells are rapidly recruited to the heart and strongly affect the course of recovery. Ziad Mallat and his colleagues uncover a pathogenic role for B cells after myocardial infarction, showing that infarction triggers B cell secretion of the chemokine Ccl7, which mobilizes monocytes from the bone marrow, increases their recruitment to the heart and impairs heart function.
- Yasmine Zouggari
- Hafid Ait-Oufella
- Ziad Mallat
