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Pre-symptomatic autoimmunity in rheumatoid arthritis: when does the disease start?
Seminars in immunopathology - 1 Jun 2017
Tracy Alexander, Buckley Christopher D, Raza Karim
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It is well recognised that a state of autoimmunity, in which immunological tolerance is broken, precedes the development of symptoms in the majority of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). For individuals who will later develop seropositive disease, this manifests as autoantibodies directed against proteins that have undergone specific post-translational modifications. There is evidence that the induction of...
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