Abstracts tagged "immunoglobulin (IG) and salivary gland"

Abstract Number: 1080 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
B-Cell Clonal Expansions in Parotid Glands of Sjogren’s Patients Are Associated with Increased Numbers of N-Glycosylation Motifs in the Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Genes
Annie Visser¹, Marieke E. Doorenspleet², Niek de Vries³, Fred K.L. Spijkervet⁴, Arjan Vissink⁵, Hendrika Bootsma⁶, Frans G.M. Kroese¹ and Nicolaas A Bos¹, ¹Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²Dept. of Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center/University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center/University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ⁵Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ⁶Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands, Groningen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by chronic inflammation of salivary and lacrimal glands. Patients with pSS have increased clonal…
Abstract Number: 519 • 2013 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Identification Of IgG4-Related Disease and Analysis Of IgG4 Serum Levels In Different Subgroups Of Patients With Sjögren’s Syndrome
Antónia Szántó¹, Gábor Nagy², Csaba Molnár³ and Margit Zeher¹, ¹Clinical Immunology, University of Debrecen, Medical and Health Science Center, Institute for Medicine, Debrecen, Hungary, ²Regional Immunological Laboratory, University of Debrecen, Medical and Health Science Center, Institute for Medicine, Debrecen, Hungary, ³University of Debrecen, Medical and Health Science Center, Institute for Pathology, Debrecen, Hungary
Background/Purpose: In the clinical diagnostic criteria of IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD), Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) appears as one of the exclusion criteria. However, in Europe, where Mikulicz’s…