Circulating Cytokine Profiles and Their Relationships with Autoantibodies, Acute Phase Reactants, and Disease Activity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Glavni autori: Pieter W. A. Meyer (Autor), Bridget Hodkinson (Autor), Mahmood Ally (Autor), Eustasius Musenge (Autor), Ahmed A. Wadee (Autor), Heidi Fickl (Autor), Mohammed Tikly (Autor), Ronald Anderson (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: Hindawi Limited, 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Our objective was to analyse the relationship between circulating cytokines, autoantibodies, acute phase reactants, and disease activity in DMARDs-naïve rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients (n=140). All cytokines were significantly higher in the RA cohort than in healthy controls. Moderate-to-strong...