Increased interleukin-2 production in response to human type I collagen stimulation in patients with systemic sclerosis.

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Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) produced increased amounts of interleukin-2 (IL-2), in a dose-dependent manner, in response to stimulation with human type I collagen, whereas PBMC from normal subjects did not. At a dose of 50 micrograms human type I collagen/10(6) PBMC, PBMC from SSc patients (n = 17) produced 8 times as much IL-2 as did PBMC from 16 normal...

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