Patients with early rheumatoid arthritis exhibit elevated autoantibody titers against mildly oxidized low-density lipoprotein and exhibit decreased activity of the lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A(2)

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease, associated with an excess of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality due to accelerated atherosclerosis. Oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL), the antibodies against oxLDL and the lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A(2 )(Lp-PLA(2)) may pla...

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Autores principales: Lourida, Evangelia S, Georgiadis, Athanasios N, Papavasiliou, Eleni C, Papathanasiou, Athanasios I, Drosos, Alexandros A, Tselepis, Alexandros D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1860077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17326817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/ar2129

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