CD4+CD25 highCD127 low/- Treg cell frequency from peripheral blood correlates with disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2517-2521

  Kawashiri, Shin Ya ^a   Kawakami, Atsushi ^a   Okada, Akitomo ^a   Koga, Tomohiro ^a   Tamai, Mami ^a   Yamasaki, Satoshi ^a   Nakamura, Hideki ^a   Origuchi, Tomoki ^a   Ida, Hiroaki ^b   Eguchi, Katsumi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CD127 (interleukin 7R ); Disease activity; Regulatory T cell; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

BUCILLAMINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ETANERCEPT; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; METHOTREXATE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

28 JOINT DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CD4+ CD25 HIGH CD127- T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ CD25- T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; INTERLEUKIN-7 RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82755176125     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: 14992752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.110283     Document Type: Article

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