Persistent T cells identified in the muscles of patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies

In the first study of its kind, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and rheumatologists at Karolinska Sjukhuset have characterized T cells in the muscle tissue of patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies. They show that the same T cells persist in the muscle over time despite immunosuppressive treatment. This study is now published in the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine.