Abstracts tagged "endothelial cells and takayasu arteritis"

Abstract Number: 915 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Establishment of a Powerful Method to Identify Autoantigens Expressed on the Cell Surface
Tsuyoshi Shirai¹, Hiroshi Fujii¹, Tomoyuki Muto², Yuko Shirota¹, Yoko Fujita³, Tomonori Ishii¹ and Hideo Harigae¹, ¹Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, ²Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, ³Department of Hematolgy and Rheumatolgy, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Background/Purpose: Autoantibodies which recognize integral membrane proteins are generally accepted as pathogenic. However, it had been technically difficult to identify plasma membrane proteins as autoantigens…