Abstracts tagged "interferons and tolerance"

Abstract Number: 2872 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
SLE Subjects Express High Levels of Intracellular Interferon-β That Acts in an Autocrine Fashion to Promote Survival of Transitional Stage B Cells
Jennie Hamilton¹, Qi Wu², PingAr Yang³, Bao Luo⁴, Shanrun Liu⁵, Jun Li⁶, Ignacio Sanz⁷, W. Winn Chatham⁸, Hui-Chen Hsu² and John D. Mountz⁹, ¹Medicine/Division of Clinical Immunology and Rhematology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Department of Medicine, Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷Rheumatology and Lowance Center for Human Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine and Lowance Center for Human Immunology, Atlanta, GA, ⁸Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁹Department of Medicine, Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham VA Medical center, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Upregulation of interferon-β (IFNβ) is an important step in promoting maturation and survival of B cells. Secretion and autocrine action of IFNβ requires assembly…

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