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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by
persistent joint swelling and progressive destruction of cartilage and bone.
Current RA treatments are largely empirical in origin and their...
Natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 1 (Nramp1) is a genetic locus associated with innate resistance or susceptibility of murine hosts to infection with intracellular pathogens such as Salmonella, Leishmania and Mycobacterium....
Excretion of urinary N-acetyl beta-D-glucosaminidase (NAG) and its isoenzyme
patterns were studied in two groups of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
and in normal control subjects. Urine samples were collected from 30
seropositive...
Nonspecific immune parameters such as natural killer(NK) activity, antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity(ADCC), production of leukocyte migration inhibitory factor(LlF) and levels of immune complex(IC) were assessed in 47 patients with rheumatoid arthritis...
To date, efforts to treat autoimmune diseases have primarily focused on the disease symptoms rather than on the cause of the disease. In large part, this is attributed to not...
BACKGROUND: Dense fine speckled (DFS) pattern in antinuclear antibody (ANA) test using indirect immunofluorescence method became to be known recently and it is detected in patients with various chronic inflammatory...