Enrichment of T cells carrying beta7 integrins in inflamed synovial tissue from patients with early spondyloarthropathy, compared to rheumatoid arthritis. - Concepedia

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Enrichment of T cells carrying beta7 integrins in inflamed synovial tissue from patients with early spondyloarthropathy, compared to rheumatoid arthritis.

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1998

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Dirk Elewaut, Filip De Keyser, Filip Van den Bosch, A I Lazarovits, Martine De Vos, Claude Cuvelier, Gust Verbruggen, Herman Mielants, E M Veys

Abstract

Increased expression of beta7 integrins was noted on synovial T cell lines from SpA compared to RA, with discriminative correlations between alpha4beta7 and alphaEbeta7. This suggests a different origin of the synovial T cells in these diseases.