ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 2787 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Hiroshi Fujii1, Tomoko Ikeda1, Masato Nose2, Tomoyuki Muto3, Kanae Akita1, Yukiko Kamogawa1, Tsuyoshi Shirai1, Yuko Shirota1, Tomonori Ishii4 and Hideo Harigae1, 1Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, 2Institute for Promotion of Advanced Science and Technology, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan, 3Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, 4Tohoku University Hospital, Senndai, Japan
Background/Purpose: SLE is a chronic inflammatory disease triggered by the deposition of autoantibodies. One of the goals for SLE therapy is to suppress the production…