Autoimmune epididymoorchitis is essential to the pathogenesis of male-specific spondylarthritis in HLA-B27-transgenic rats

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2518-2528

  Taurog, Joel D ^a   Rival, Claudia ^b,e   Van Duivenvoorde, Leonie M ^c,d   Satumtira, Nimman ^a   Dorris, Martha L ^a   Sun, Margaret ^b,e   Shelton, John M ^a   Richardson, James A ^a   Hamra, F Kent ^a   Hammer, Robert E ^a   Tung, Kenneth S K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD163 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; HLA B27 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P35; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 23 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 23P19; TESTOSTERONE CIPIONATE;

ANDROGEN THERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE EPIDIDYMOORCHITIS; AZOOSPERMIA; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EPIDIDYMIS; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; ORCHITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETE TESTIS; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; TESTIS CELL;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; FEMALE; HLA-B27 ANTIGEN; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALE; ORCHITIS; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; TESTIS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84864440555     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.34480     Document Type: Article

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