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01-10-2012 | Letter
Response to 'Plasma proteins present in osteoarthritic synovial fluid can stimulate cytokine production via Toll-like receptor 4' - authors' reply
Authors:
Dong Hyun Sohn, Jeremy Sokolove, Orr Sharpe, Jennifer C Erhart, Piyanka E Chandra, Lauren J Lahey, Tamsin M Lindstrom, Inyong Hwang, Katherine A Boyer, Thomas P Andriacchi, William H Robinson
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Arthritis Research & Therapy
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Issue 5/2012
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Excerpt
We thank Oliviero and colleagues for their interest in our recent publication [
1] and for reporting their very interesting related experiments [
2]. Their results strongly support the concept that extravascular plasma proteins may act as damage-associated molecular patterns, and specifically as Toll-like receptor 4 agonists. In addition, we note that the NALP-3 inflammasome exhibits dependence on Toll-like receptor 4 or other mechanisms of priming of IL-1β transcription, thereby generating pro-IL-1β that can be converted to IL-1β by the activated inflammasome [
3]. …