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SUBMITTER: Rossato C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6413398 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rossato Cristiano C Albuquerque Layra Lucy LL Katz Iana Suly Santos ISS Borrego Andrea A Cabrera Wafa Hanna Koury WHK Spadafora-Ferreira Mônica M Ribeiro Orlando Garcia OG Starobinas Nancy N Ibañez Olga Martinez OM De Franco Marcelo M Jensen José Ricardo JR
Journal of immunology research 20190226
The inflammatory and autoimmune events preceding clinical symptoms in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other autoimmune diseases are difficult to study in human patients. Therefore, animal models that share immunologic and clinical features with human RA, such as pristane-induced arthritis (PIA), are valuable tools for assessing the primordial events related to arthritis susceptibility. PIA-resistant HIII and susceptible LIII mice were injected i.p. with pristane, and peritoneal lavage fluid was ha ...[more]