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Oligoclonal T Cell Expansion in the Skin of Patients with Systemic Sclerosis
1 Apr 2002
Abstract excerpt
Fibrosis, microvascular fibroproliferative alterations, and autoantibody production are the main features of systemic sclerosis (SSc), and all of them can be explained by cytokine production by activated T cells. However, little is known about the role of T cells in the pathogenesis of SSc, and there is no information on the Ag(s) that elicits such activation. To determine whether T cells infiltrating the skin...
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