Immunoglobulin G galactosylation and sialylation are associated with pregnancy-induced improvement of rheumatoid arthritis and the postpartum flare: Results from a large prospective cohort study

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Van de Geijn, Fleur E ^a   Wuhrer, Manfred ^b   Selman, Maurice H J ^b   Willemsen, Sten P ^a   de Man, Yaël A ^a   Deelder, André M ^b   Hazes, Johanna M W ^a   Dolhain, Radboud J E M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; METHOTREXATE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PREDNISONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; GALACTOSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; N ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GALACTOSYLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUERPERIUM; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SIALYLATION; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; IMMUNOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GALACTOSE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; N-ACETYLNEURAMINIC ACID; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 77952487132     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar2892     Document Type: Article

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