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A compass that points to lupus: genetic studies on type I interferon pathway.
Genes and immunity - 1 Sept 2007
Kyogoku C, Tsuchiya N
Abstract excerpt
It was more than 20 years ago that patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were first reported to display elevated serum levels of type I interferon (IFN). Since then, extensive studies revealed a crucial role for type I IFN in SLE pathogenesis. The current model proposes that small increase of type I IFN production by plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) is sufficient to induce unabated activation of...
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