There is no disease-specific role for streptococci-responsive synovial T lymphocytes in the pathogenesis of psoriatic arthritis

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 188, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 203-207

  Thomssen, Henrike ^a   Hoffmann, Boris ^a   Schank, Marion ^a   Elewaut, Dirk ^b   Büschenfelde, Karl Hermann Meyer Zum ^a   Märker Hermann, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Psoriatic arthritis; Streptococcal superantigen; Synovial membrane; T lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; COLLAGENASE; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SYNOVIOCYTE; SYNOVIUM; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SUPERANTIGENS; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0034086716     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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