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Changes in expression of membrane TNF, NF-{kappa}B activation and neutrophil apoptosis during active and resolved inflammation.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Mar 2011
Wright Helen L, Chikura Batsi, Bucknall Roger C, Moots Robert J, Edwards Steven W
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) is central to the pathophysiological process of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), whether as soluble cytokine or membrane-expressed pro-TNF (mTNF). OBJECTIVES: To determine whether neutrophils, which can express TNF, are activated in the blood of patients with RA compared with healthy controls. To investigate, by focusing on mTNF expression, if the functions of RA neutrophils...
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