ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 1734 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Debbie M. Roeleveld1, Renoud Marijnissen2, Rebecca Rogier3, Birgitte Walgreen1, Monique M. Helsen3, Liduine van den Bersselaar3, Shahla Abdollahi-Roodsaz4, Wim B. van den Berg3 and Marije I. Koenders3, 1Experimentel Rheumatology, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2Experimental Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 3Experimental Rheumatology, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 4Rheumatology, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disease that leads to progressive destruction of cartilage and bone. IL-22 and IL-22-producing T helper cells…