Abstracts tagged "auto-immunity and citrullinated vimentin"

Abstract Number: 2615 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Circulating Levels of Citrullinated Vimentin Fragments Are Diagnostic and Prognostic in Ankylosing Spondylitis; Evidence for Disease-Related Citrullination
Anne C. Bay-Jensen¹, Morten Asser Karsdal², Efstathios Vassiliadis³, Stephanie Wichuk⁴, Zheng Zhao⁵, Robert GW Lambert⁶, Rik Lories⁷, Claus Christiansen⁸ and Walter P. Maksymowych⁹, ¹Cartilage Biomarkers and Research, Nordic Bioscience, Herlev, Denmark, ²Nordic Bioscience A/S, Herlev, Denmark, ³Nordic Bioscience, Herlev, Denmark, ⁴Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, University of Alberta and PLA General Hospital, Beijing, PR China, Beijing, AB, China, ⁶Radiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁷Laboratory of Tissue Homeostasis and Disease - SBE Research Center, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ⁸CCBR, Ballerup, Denmark, ⁹Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is considered an anti-CCP positive disease whereas ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is considered an anti-CCP negative disease. Anti-CCP has prognostic capacity in…