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Lack of reactive oxygen species breaks T cell tolerance to collagen type II and allows development of arthritis in mice.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Aug 2007
Hultqvist Malin, Bäcklund Johan, Bauer Kristin, Gelderman Kyra A, Holmdahl Rikard
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The view on reactive oxygen species (ROS) in inflammation is currently shifting from being considered damaging toward having a more complex role in regulating inflammatory reactions. We recently demonstrated a role of ROS in regulation of animal models for the autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis. Low levels of ROS production, due to a mutation in the Ncf1 gene coding for the Ncf1 (alias p47(phox)) subunit of...
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