ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 1758 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Namrata Singh1, Duncan Johnstone2, Kayla Martin3, Italo Tempera4, Mariana J. Kaplan5 and Michael Denny6, 1Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2Nephrology, Internal Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 3Microbiology and Immunology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 4Micorbiology/Immunology, Fels Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, PA, 5Systemic Autoimmunity Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 6Internal Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: SLE is regarded as a failure of the immune system to maintain tolerance to self-antigens. Despite steady advances defining the importance of inflammatory mediators…