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01-11-2010 | Oral presentation
Linking genotype to cell function in chronic inflammation: analysis of the IL-23/Th17 axis in spondylarthropathy
Authors:
M Roumier, M Coffre, H Law, C Salliot, M Dougados, E Bianchi, L Rogge
Published in:
Journal of Translational Medicine
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Special Issue 1/2010
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Excerpt
For two decades, Th1 cells have been implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory diseases. This notion has been challenged by the discovery of IL-23 and Th17 cells as key players in mouse inflammatory disease models. Furthermore, recent genome wide association studies have found a strong association between spondylarthropathy (SpA, a group of chronic inflammatory rheumatisms) and the presence of single nucleotide polymorphisms at the IL-23R locus. …