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Cystatin C influences the autoimmune but not inflammatory response to cartilage type II collagen leading to chronic arthritis development

INTRODUCTION: Collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) is a mouse model for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and is induced after immunization with type II collagen (CII). CIA, like RA, is an autoimmune disease leading to destruction of cartilage and joints, and both the priming and inflammatory phases have been s...

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Autores principales: Bäcklund, Alexandra, Holmdahl, Meirav, Mattsson, Ragnar, Håkansson, Katarina, Lindström, Veronica, Nandakumar, Kutty Selva, Grubb, Anders, Holmdahl, Rikard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3132044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21443774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/ar3298