Adaptive immunity in rheumatic diseases - Bystander or pathogenic player?

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 785-800

  Scherer, Hans Ulrich ^a   Burmester, Gerd Rüdiger ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive immunity; Anti citrullinated protein antibodies; Autoantibodies; B cells; Rheumatoid arthritis; Rheumatoid factor; T cells; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CYTOKINE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MEMORY T LYMPHOCYTE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

EID: 84855983883     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: 15321770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2011.11.005     Document Type: Review

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