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Antibody-induced arthritis: disease mechanisms and genes involved at the effector phase of arthritis.
Arthritis research & therapy - 1 Jan 2006
Nandakumar Kutty Selva, Holmdahl Rikard
Abstract excerpt
During the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) autoantibodies to IgG-Fc, citrullinated proteins, collagen type II (CII), glucose 6 phosphoisomerase (G6PI) and some other self-antigens appear. Of these, a pathogenic effect of the anti-CII and anti-G6PI antibodies is well demonstrated using animal models. These new antibody mediated arthritis models have proven to be very useful for studies involved in...
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