Mononuclear cell response to enterobacteria and gram-positive cell walls of normal intestinal microbiota in early rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory arthritides

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 193-200

  Chen, T ^a   Rimpilainen M ^a   Luukkainen, R ^a   Mottonen T ^a   Yli Kerttula, U ^a   Saario, R ^a   Toivanen, P ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bacterial cell wall; Early rheumatoid arthritis; Immune response; Synovial fluid

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BLOOD; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE DURATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; FAUNA; FEMALE; GOUT; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEATING; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGOUT; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SCLERODERMA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SYNOVIAL FLUID; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; ADOLESCENT; CELL WALL; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CELL WALL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INTESTINES; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 0035990199     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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