Serum Levels of HMGB1 in postmenopausal patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Associations with proinflammatory cytokines, acute-phase reactants, and clinical disease characteristics

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1523-1525

  Pullerits, Rille ^a   Urbonaviciute, Vilma ^b   Voll, Reinhard E ^b   Forsblad D'Elia, Helena ^c   Carlsten, Hans ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOCLAST; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STROMA CELL; SYNOVITIS; SYNOVIUM;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHROGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HMGB1 PROTEIN; HUMANS; JOINTS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 79959982534     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: 14992752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.110091     Document Type: Letter

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