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Fibrocyte and T cell interactions promote disease pathogenesis in rheumatoid arthritis.
Journal of autoimmunity - 1 May 2016
Galligan Carole L, Keystone Edward C, Fish Eleanor N
Abstract excerpt
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease. We previously identified a circulating cell population, fibrocytes, which is activated early in disease. As RA is characterized by the formation of autoantibodies and autoreactive T cells, which often precede symptom onset, the objective of these studies was to characterize fibrocyte activation in the context of T cell activation. Multidimensional flow...
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