Abstracts tagged "cytokines and familial Mediterranean fever"

Abstract Number: 253 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Multiple Serum Cytokine Profiling to Identify Specific Molecular Networks in Attacks of Familial Mediterranean Fever
Tomohiro Koga¹, Kiyoshi Migita², Shuntaro Sato³, Masataka Umeda⁴, Shoichi Fukui⁵, Ayako Nishino⁴, Shinya Kawashiri⁶, Naoki Iwamoto⁵, Kunihiro Ichinose⁵, Mami Tamai⁵, Hideki Nakamura⁵, Tomoki Origuchi⁷, Yukitaka Ueki⁸, Kazunaga Agematsu⁹, Katsumi Eguchi¹⁰ and Atsushi Kawakami⁴, ¹Departments of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ²Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Research Center, Nagasaki Medical Center, Omura, Japan, ³Clinical Research Center, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁴Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁵Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁶Department of Public Health, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁷Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, ⁸Rheumatic and Collagen Disease Center, Sasebo Chuo Hospital, Sasebo, Japan, ⁹Department of Infectious Immunology, Shinshu University, Graduate School of Medicine, Shinshu, Japan, ¹⁰Department of Rheumatology, Sasebo Chuo Hospital, Sasebo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Familial mediterranean fever (FMF) is caused by a number of mutations of the MEFV gene, coding for a protein named pyrin that acts as…