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RAGE and arthritis: the G82S polymorphism amplifies the inflammatory response.
Genes and immunity - 1 May 2002
Hofmann M A, Drury S, Hudson B I, Gleason M R, Qu W, Lu Y, Lalla E, Chitnis S, Monteiro J, Stickland M H, Bucciarelli L G, Moser B, Moxley G, Itescu S, Grant P J, Gregersen P K, Stern D M, Schmidt A M
Abstract excerpt
The receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) and its proinflammatory S100/calgranulin ligands are enriched in joints of subjects with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and amplify the immune/inflammatory response. In a model of inflammatory arthritis, blockade of RAGE in mice immunized and challenged with bovine type II collagen suppressed clinical and histologic evidence of arthritis, in parallel with...
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