Increased Serum LIGHT Levels Correlate with Disease Progression and Severity of Interstitial Pneumonia in Patients with Dermatomyositis: A Case Control Study

BACKGROUND: Activated CD8+ T cells play an important role in the pathogenesis of dermatomyositis (DM) with interstitial pneumonia (IP). Serum CD8+ T-cell activator, LIGHT, and Th1/Th2/Th17 cytokines were measured in DM-IP patients and compared with clinical parameters to investigate their usefulness...

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Autores principales: Kotani, Takuya, Takeuchi, Tohru, Ishida, Takaaki, Masutani, Ryota, Isoda, Kentaro, Hata, Kenichiro, Yoshida, Shuzo, Makino, Shigeki, Hanafusa, Toshiaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4598117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26448572
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140117

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4598117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26448572
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140117

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