Formation of the inflammasome in acute myocarditis

Affiliations

• ¹ VCU Pauley Heart Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA; Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
• ² Institute of Pathologic Anatomy, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
• ³ Cardiovascular Department "Ospedali Riuniti", University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
• ⁴ VCU Pauley Heart Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA; Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA; Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
• ⁵ Institute of Legal Medicine, Catholic University, Rome, Italy.
• ⁶ Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA; Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, Second University of Naples, Italy.
• ⁸ VCU Pauley Heart Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA; Victoria Johnson Research Laboratories, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA. Electronic address: aabbate@mcvh-vcu.edu.