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Premature aging of the immune system in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis
24 Jun 2008
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is an autoimmune disease of the young. The pathogenesis is not completely understood. Premature aging, associated thymic involution, and compensatory autoproliferation could play important roles in the pathogenesis of autoimmunity. We undertook this study to determine whether patients with JIA demonstrate premature immunosenescence. METHODS: To test this hypothesis,...
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