Abstracts tagged "chemokines and synovium"

Abstract Number: 988 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Serum CXCL13 As a Biomarker of Disease Activity and Severity in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Comparison with Acute Phase Reactants and the Autoantibody Profile
Antonio Manzo¹, Serena Bugatti¹, Barbara Vitolo¹, Francesca Benaglio¹, Elisa Binda¹, Martina Scarabelli¹, Roberto Caporali² and Carlomaurizio Montecucco¹, ¹Rheumatology and Translational Immunology Research Laboratories (LaRIT), Division of Rheumatology, IRCCS Policlinico S.Matteo Foundation/University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, ²Division of Rheumatology, Rheumatology and Translational Immunology Research Laboratories (LaRIT), Division of Rheumatology, IRCCS Policlinico S.Matteo Foundation/University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Background/Purpose The B cell chemoattractant CXCL13 has recently emerged as a new candidate biomarker of disease activity capable of identifying patients with persistent synovitis and…