Lymphocyte depletion with fludarabine in patients with psoriatic arthritis: Clinical and immunological effects

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1112-1115

  Takada, K ^a   Danning, C L ^b   Kuroiwa, T ^c   Schlimgen, R ^d   Tassiulas, I O ^e   Davis Jr , J C ^f   Yarboro, C H ^a   Fleisher, T A ^g   Boumpas, D T ^h   Illei, G G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^b Gundersen Lutheran ^*  (United States)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Hospital for Special Surgery   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; FLUDARABINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; RETINOID; STAT1 PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; EDEMA; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MEMORY CELL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; RANDOMIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNOVIUM; T LYMPHOCYTE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; E-SELECTIN; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; P-SELECTIN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREDNISONE; STAT1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIDARABINE;

EID: 0142156496     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.62.11.1112     Document Type: Article

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