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Reduced perforin expression in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis is restored by autologous stem-cell transplantation
1 Feb 2003
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OBJECTIVES: Familial haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL) is a disorder characterized by deficient cytotoxic T-cell function and activated macrophages, owing to a defect in the perforin gene and absent perforin expression. Because symptoms of patients with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) are sometimes clinically very similar to those with FHL, we studied whether perforin expression in sJIA...
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