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Circulating TFH subset distribution is strongly affected in lupus patients with an active disease.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Le Coz Carole, Joublin Aurélie, Pasquali Jean-Louis, Korganow Anne-Sophie, Dumortier Hélène, Monneaux Fanny
Abstract excerpt
Follicular helper T cells (TFH) represent a distinct subset of CD4(+) T cells specialized in providing help to B lymphocytes, which may play a central role in autoimmune diseases having a major B cell component such as systemic lupus erythematosus. Recently, TFH subsets that share common phenotypic and functional characteristics with TFH cells from germinal centers, have been described in the peripheral blood...
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