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Innately Adaptive or Truly Autoimmune: Is There Something Unique About Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis?
16 Sept 2019
Abstract excerpt
Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a form of arthritis in childhood that is initially dominated by innate immunity-driven systemic inflammation and is thus considered a polygenic autoinflammatory disease. However, systemic JIA can progress toward an adaptive immunity-driven afebrile arthritis. Based on this observation of biphasic disease progression, a "window of opportunity" for optimal,...
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