Abstracts tagged "adenosine receptors and salivary hypofunction"

Abstract Number: 2775 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Adenosine A2b Receptor Agonist Bay60-6583 Restores Salivary Gland Function In a Mouse Model For Sjögren’s Syndrome
Barbara Szczerba¹, Paulina Rybakowska¹, Paromita Dey¹, Harini Bagavant¹ and Umesh Deshmukh², ¹Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, ²Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Background/Purpose: Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) is a chronic autoimmune disorder mainly affecting the exocrine glands. However, it is now clear that both immune and non-immune…