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Anti-IFN-α/β receptor antibody treatment ameliorates disease in lupus-predisposed mice.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Dec 2012
Baccala Roberto, Gonzalez-Quintial Rosana, Schreiber Robert D, Lawson Brian R, Kono Dwight H, Theofilopoulos Argyrios N
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The demonstration in humans and mice that nucleic acid-sensing TLRs and type I IFNs are essential disease mediators is a milestone in delineating the mechanisms of lupus pathogenesis. In this study, we show that Ifnb gene deletion does not modify disease progression in NZB mice, thereby strongly implicating IFN-α subtypes as the principal pathogenic effectors. We further document that long-term treatment of male...
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