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Pathophysiology of ANCA-associated vasculitides: are ANCA really pathogenic?
The Netherlands journal of medicine - 1 Dec 2003
Tervaert J W Cohen, Heeringa P
Abstract excerpt
The strong relation between antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies (ANCA) and primary vasculitic syndromes suggests a pathophysiological role for ANCA. Experimental evidence for the pathogenic potential of ANCA has been derived from in vitro studies that demonstrate that ANCA can activate tumour necrosis factor alpha primed neutrophils, monocytes and/or endothelial cells. The binding of ANCA to primed...
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