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Synovial cells responding to a 65-kDa mycobacterial heat shock protein have a high proportion of a TcR gamma delta subtype uncommon in peripheral blood.
Scandinavian journal of immunology - 1 Nov 1990
Söderström K, Halapi E, Nilsson E, Grönberg A, van Embden J, Klareskog L, Kiessling R
Abstract excerpt
We have analysed the ability of T cells from synovial fluid mononuclear cells (SFMC) and from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of inflammatory arthritic diseases to proliferate in response to mycobacterial antigens (65-kDa heat shock protein [hsp] of BCG, whole BCG) and to rat collagen type II. The SFMC demonstrated a significantly greater ability to respond to 65-kDa hsp of BCG, and to whole BCG,...
Topics
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Arthritis
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid
- Collagen
- Heat-Shock Proteins
- Humans
- Interleukin-2
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Molecular Weight
