Abstracts tagged "Apoptosis and lupus nephritis"

Abstract Number: 1612 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Deficient Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks and Increased Apoptosis in Patients with Lupus Nephritis
Vassilis Souliotis¹ and Petros P. Sfikakis², ¹Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece, Athens, Greece, ²First Department of Propedeutic Internal Medicine, Laikon Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece
Background/Purpose: Accumulation of apoptotic cells leads to excessive autoantigen presentation and autoantibody formation in autoimmunity, whereas mandatory to avoid apoptosis is the efficient repair of…