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[Recent advances in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis].
Clinical calcium - 1 Mar 2009
Kawabata Kimito, Yamamoto Kazuhiko
Abstract excerpt
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory polyarthritis and is thought to be an autoimmune, multifactorial and polygenic disease. Recent studies have uncovered many important players in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis. Immune cells, mesenchymal cells, and bone-associated cells are all involved in the pathogenesis and are closely related with each other. The genetic predisposition to rheumatoid...
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