Clinical Medicine Insights: Circulatory, Respiratory and Pulmonary Medicine 9(Suppl 1) 97-110 2016年1月 [査読有り]
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a disorder characterized by immune dysfunction, microvascular injury, and fibrosis. Organ involvement in patients with SSc is variable
however, pulmonary involvement occurs in up to 90% of patients with SSc. Interstiti...
Objective. To elucidate the pathologic role of follicular helper T (Tfh) cells and their subsets in active, untreated IgG4-related disease.
Methods. Fifteen patients with active, untreated, biopsy-proven IgG4-related disease, 24 patients with prim...
Arthritis and Rheumatism 50(11) 3658-3662 2004年11月
Objective. To detect and characterize the autoreactive CD8+ T cells to major histocompatibility complex class 1 chain-related gene A (MICA), a stress-inducible antigen preferentially expressed on the epithelium and endothelium, in patients with Be...
ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 50(11) 3658-3662 2004年11月
Objective. To detect and characterize the autoreactive CD8+ T cells to major histocompatibility complex class I chain-related gene A (MICA), a stress-inducible antigen preferentially expressed on the epithelium and endothelium, in patients with Be...
BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY 124(6) 796-801 2004年3月
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of inflammatory cytokine genes were examined in 84 adult Japanese patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and 56 race-matched healthy controls. The SNPs examined were within the genes enco...