ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 2549 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Aikaterini Thanou1, Melissa E. Munroe2, Stan Kamp3, Joel M. Guthridge4, Judith A. James5 and Joan T. Merrill6, 1Arthritis and Clinical Immmunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, 2Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, 3Clinical Pharmacology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, 4Arthritis and Clinical Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, 5Clinical Arthritis and Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK, 6Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Background/Purpose: Despite the heterogeneity of SLE, specific pathways of immune dysregulation characterize significant subsets of patients. We examined cytokines reflecting IL6-TH17 pathology in lupus as…