Abstracts tagged "antiphospholipid and microbiome"

Abstract Number: 856 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
A Pathogenic Role for the Gut Microbiota in Murine Antiphospholipid Syndrome and Lupus
Silvio M. Vieira¹, Andrew Yu¹, Michael Hiltesperger¹, Odelya E. Pagovich¹, Eleni Tiniakou¹, William Ruff², John Sterpka¹ and Martin Kriegel^2,3, ¹Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ²Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ³Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Background/Purpose: The etiology of lupus-associated antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is unknown but microbial triggers have been implicated in transient antiphospholipid antibody production in both mice and…