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Isolation and characteristics of autoreactive T cells specific to aggrecan G1 domain from rheumatoid arthritis patients.
Cell research - 1 Mar 2000
Li N L, Zhang D Q, Zhou K Y, Cartman A, Leroux J Y, Poole A R, Zhang Y P
Abstract excerpt
Our previous work showed that the cartilage proteoglycan aggrecan could induce an erosive polyarthritis and spondylitis in BALB/c mice and the G1 globular domain of the aggrecan (G1) contained the arthritogenic region. To elucidate whether autoreactive T cells to G1 are expressed in rheumatoid arthritis patients, we analyzed the frequency of human G1-specific T cells in the peripheral blood of five rheumatoid...
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