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Apolipoprotein E phenotypes in rheumatoid arthritis with or without amyloidosis.
Amyloid : the international journal of experimental and clinical investigation : the official journal of the International Society of Amyloidosis - 1 Dec 2001
Maury C P, Liljeström M, Tiitinen S, Laiho K, Kaarela K, Ehnholm C
Abstract excerpt
The role of apolipoprotein (apo) E in the pathogenesis of reactive amyloidosis is unclear. Here we evaluated the apoE phenotype distribution and apolipoprotein e allele frequencies in 55 adult patients with seropositive, erosive RA with amyloid and compared them with 55 matched RA patients without amyloid The apoE isotypes were determined by isoelectric focusing and immunoblotting. RA patients without amyloid had...
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