1. Serum soluble interleukin 7 receptor is strongly associated with lupus nephritis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
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Joel A G van Roon, Valérie Badot, Bernard Lauwerys, Selda Aydin, G Depresseux, Remco K M A C Luijten, Frédéric Houssiau, and Benoît Van den Eynde
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Adult ,Male ,musculoskeletal diseases ,Receptors, Interleukin-7 -- blood ,Immunology ,Lupus nephritis ,Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay ,Inflammation ,Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic -- blood -- complications ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Proinflammatory cytokine ,Lupus Nephritis -- blood ,Rheumatology ,immune system diseases ,hemic and lymphatic diseases ,medicine ,Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic ,Humans ,Immunology and Allergy ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,Interleukin-7 receptor ,Receptors, Interleukin-7 ,Lupus erythematosus ,Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction ,business.industry ,virus diseases ,Médecine pathologie humaine ,medicine.disease ,Lupus Nephritis ,Immunohistochemistry ,Connective tissue disease ,female genital diseases and pregnancy complications ,Rhumatologie ,Rheumatoid arthritis ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Nephritis - Abstract
The soluble form of the interleukin 7 receptor (sIL-7R) is produced by fibroblasts after stimulation with proinflammatory cytokines. Increased sIL-7R serum and synovial fluid levels were recently demonstrated in patients with rheumatoid arthritis., Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, SCOPUS: ar.j, info:eu-repo/semantics/published
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- 2012
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