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Abstract Number: 2340 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Human Osteoclasts Are Mobilized in Erosive Arthritis of Epstein-Barr Virus-Infected Humanized NOD/Shi-Scid/IL-2Rγ^null Mice
Yosuke Nagasawa¹, Natsumi Ikumi², Takamasa Nozaki¹, Hirotake Inomata¹, Kenichi Imadome³, Noboru Kitamura¹, Mitsuhiro Iwata¹, Shigeyoshi Fujiwara⁴ and Masami Takei¹, ¹Division of Hematology and Rheumatology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ²Division of Heamatology and Rheumatology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ³Department of Infectious Diseases, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan, ⁴Department of Iinfectious Diseases, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose Various studies of the relationship between Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have not produced convincing evidence. Many human viruses do not infect…

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