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SUBMITTER: Dimitrijevic M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6985112 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dimitrijević Mirjana M Arsenović-Ranin Nevena N Kosec Duško D Bufan Biljana B Nacka-Aleksić Mirjana M Pilipović Ivan I Leposavić Gordana G
Scientific reports 20200127 1
The study examined germinal centre (GC) reaction in lymph nodes draining inflamed joints and adjacent tissues (dLNs) in male and female Dark Agouti rat collagen type II (CII)-induced arthritis (CIA) model of rheumatoid arthritis. Female rats exhibiting the greater susceptibility to CIA mounted stronger serum CII-specific IgG response than their male counterparts. This correlated with the higher frequency of GC B cells in female compared with male dLNs. Consistently, the frequency of activated/pr ...[more]