CCL2 and myositis disease: As further evidence of the importance of MCP-1 in myositis, animal models have implicated this chemokine in a transgenic model of selective over expression of self MHC Class l in skeletal muscle, MHC over expression induced MCP-1 production [8] and, in a model of viral induced myositis, blockade of MCP-1 significantly attenuated muscle inflammation [45].