Circulating CD4+CD161+ T lymphocytes are increased in seropositive arthralgia patients but decreased in patients with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Chalan, Paulina ^a,b   Kroesen, Bart Jan ^a,b   Van Der Geest, Kornelis S M ^a,b   Huitema, Minke G ^a,b   Abdulahad, Wayel H ^a,b   Bijzet, Johan ^a,b   Brouwer, Elisabeth ^a,b   Boots, Annemieke M H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Groningen Research Initiative on Healthy Ageing and Immune Longevity (GRAIL)   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CD161 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CD4+ CD161+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MECHANISM; EARLY INTERVENTION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYNOVITIS; SYNOVIUM; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH17 CELL;

ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NK CELL LECTIN-LIKE RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY B; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 84891381430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079370     Document Type: Article

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