The role of monocytes and macrophages in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: insights into pathogenesis and potential targets
Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) are heterogeneous autoimmune disorders characterized by muscle inflammation, weakness, and extramuscular manifestations such as interstitial lung disease, skin rash, arthritis, dysphagia, myocarditis and other systemic organ involvement.Although T and B cells have historically been central to the understand