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Clinical and immunological implications of increase in CD208(+) dendritic cells in tonsils of patients with immunoglobulin A nephropathy*

BACKGROUND: The therapeutic effect of tonsillectomy for immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) has been widely recognized, but the mechanism by which tonsillar immunity leads to glomerulonephritis has been unclear. We investigated subtypes and localization of dendritic cells (DCs) in tonsils and looked...

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Autores principales: Takechi, Hanako, Oda, Takashi, Hotta, Osamu, Yamamoto, Kojiro, Oshima, Naoki, Matsunobu, Takeshi, Shiotani, Akihiro, Nagura, Hiroshi, Shimazaki, Hideyuki, Tamai, Seiichi, Sakurai, Yutaka, Kumagai, Hiroo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24081865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gft399