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Inflammatory pathways in spondyloarthritis.
Molecular immunology - 1 Jan 2014
Hreggvidsdottir Hulda S, Noordenbos Troy, Baeten Dominique L
Abstract excerpt
Spondyloarthritis is the second most common form of chronic inflammatory arthritis and a unique hallmark of the disease is pathologic new bone formation. Several cytokine pathways have been genetically associated with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), the prototypic subtype of SpA, and additional evidence from human and animal studies support a role of these pathways in the disease. TNF has a key role in SpA as...
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