Mycoplasma fermentans glycolipid-antigen as a pathogen of rheumatoid arthritis

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 369, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 561-566

  Kawahito, Yutaka ^a   Ichinose, Sizuko ^b   Sano, Hajime ^c   Tsubouchi, Yasunori ^a   Kohno, Masataka ^a   Yoshikawa, Toshikazu ^a   Tokunaga, Daisaku ^d   Hojo, Tatsuya ^d   Harasawa, Ryo ^e   Nakano, Teruaki ^f   Matsuda, Kazuhiro ^g  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^g M Bio Technology Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antigen presentation; CD1; Endoplasmic reticulum; Glycolipid; Glycolipid antigen; Lipid antigen; Mycoplasma fermentans; NKT; Pathogenesis; Phosphocholine containing glycolipid; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; GLYCOGLYCEROLIPID I; GLYCOGLYCEROLIPID III; GLYCOLIPID; INTERLEUKIN 6; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA FERMENTANS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIOCYTE;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; GLYCOLIPIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA FERMENTANS;

MYCOPLASMA FERMENTANS;

EID: 40849142023     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.02.079     Document Type: Article

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