Abstracts tagged "inflammatory myositis and interferons"

Abstract Number: 1015 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines Produced By Different Subsets of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells Are Associated with Ro52/TRIM21 Deficiency in Patients with Inflammatory Myopathies
Ana Barrera-Vargas¹, Angeles Shunashy Galindo-Feria², Diana Gómez-Martín¹, Javier Merayo-Chalico¹ and Jorge Alcocer-Varela¹, ¹Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico, ²Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a group of rare, heterogeneous autoimmune diseases of unknown etiology. Different physiopathogenic mechanisms have been proposed, including the production…