Veterinary World, EISSN: 2231-0916 RESEARCH ARTICLE Available at www.veterinaryworld.org/Vol.12/September-2019/21.pdf Open Access Immune-inflammatory concept of the pathogenesis of chronic heart failure in dogs with dilated cardiomyopathy Yu Vatnikov1, A. Rudenko2, P. Rudenko3, Ev Kulikov1, A. Karamyan1, V. Lutsay2, I. Medvedev4, V. Byakhova1, E. Krotova1 and M. Molvhanova1 1. Department of Veterinary Medicine, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow 117198, Russia; 2. Department of Veterinary Medicine, Moscow State University of Food Production, Moscow 125080, Russia; 3. Laboratory of Biological Experiments, Branch of the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino 117997, Russia; 4. Department of Adaptive Physical Culture and Recreation, Russian State Social University, Moscow 129226, Russia. Corresponding author: V. Byakhova, e-mail:
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[email protected] Received: 17-02-2019, Accepted: 07-08-2019, Published online: 28-09-2019 doi: 10.14202/vetworld.2019.1491-1498 How to cite this article: Vatnikov Y, Rudenko A, Rudenko P, Kulikov E, Karamyan A, Lutsay V, Medvedev I, Byakhova V, Krotova E, Molvhanova M (2019) Immune-inflammatory concept of the pathogenesis of chronic heart failure in dogs with dilated cardiomyopathy, Veterinary World, 12(9): 1491-1498. Abstract Background: Dilated cardiomyopathy is common in dogs. This form of cardiomyopathy is the main cause of death due to heart disease in dogs.