Natvig JB, Førre O, Randen I, Steinitz M, Thompson K, Waalen K. B lymphocytes, B cell clones and rheumatoid factor antibodies in rheumatoid inflammation.
Scand J Rheumatol Suppl 1988;
76:217-27. [PMID:
3075078 DOI:
10.3109/03009748809102972]
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Abstract
This report focuses on the B lymphocytes and plasma cells in rheumatoid inflammation, and discusses the major autoantibodies in the pathogenetic mechanisms, i.e. the rheumatoid factor (RF) antibodies. We describe ways of raising human hybridomas that produce RF antibodies in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in order to elucidate how these antibodies differ from the RF antibodies that are part of the normal immune response in man and animals, and from those in diseases other than RA, e.g. in M-components seen in mixed cryoglobulinaemia and in Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia. The preliminary results of these studies are presented and discussed.
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