Article
The B lymphocyte in rheumatoid arthritis: analysis of rearranged V kappa genes from B cells infiltrating the synovial membrane.
European journal of immunology - 1 Oct 1995
Gause A, Gundlach K, Zdichavsky M, Jacobs G, Koch B, Hopf T, Pfreundschuh M
Abstract excerpt
The participation of the humoral immune system in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the production of rheumatoid factors (RF). RF are autoantibodies against the Fc part of IgG which are encoded by diverse germ-line genes. Most of the RF-encoding genes are unmutated, but in RA, a subst...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid
- B-Lymphocyte Subsets
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- Female
- Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Light Chain
- Genes, Immunoglobulin
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Rheumatoid Factor
- Sequence Alignment
- Synovial Membrane