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SUBMITTER: Hagert C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5808283 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hagert Cecilia C Sareila Outi O Kelkka Tiina T Jalkanen Sirpa S Holmdahl Rikard R
Frontiers in immunology 20180206
The injection of mannan into mice can result in the development of psoriasis (Ps) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA), whereas co-injection with antibodies toward collagen type II leads to a chronic rheumatoid-like arthritis. The critical event in all these diseases is mannan-mediated activation of macrophages, causing more severe disease if the macrophages are deficient in neutrophil cytosolic factor 1 (Ncf1), i.e., lack the capacity to make a reactive oxygen species (ROS) burst. In this study, we in ...[more]