Increased expression of IL-15 in the synovium of patients with rheumatoid arthritis compared with patients with Yersinia-induced arthritis and osteoarthritis

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 444-450

  Thurkow, Erik W ^a   Van Der Heijden, Ineke M ^a   Breedveld, Ferdinand C ^a   Smeets, Tom J M ^a   Daha, Mohamed R ^a   Kluin, Philip M ^b   Meinders, A Edo ^a   Tak, Paul P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

interleukin 15; macrophages; natural killer cells; osteoarthritis; reactive arthritis; rheumatoid arthritis; synovial tissue; T cells

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 15;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIUM; T LYMPHOCYTE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, REACTIVE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTERLEUKIN-15; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 0030913955     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(199704)181:4<444::AID-PATH778>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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