Abstract Number: 1915 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Partial Elimination of Intestinal Microbiota Dampens T Helper 17 Cell Differentiation and Established Collagen-Induced Arthritis in Mice
Background/Purpose: High-throughput sequencing of intestinal microbiota recently revealed that the composition of intestinal microbiota is perturbed in patients with new onset untreated rheumatoid arthritis (RA).…Abstract Number: 1762 • 2015 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Reciprocal Roles of Intestinal Microbiota in the Pathogenesis of Organ-Specific Autoimmune Diseases in a Lymphopenia-Induced Autoimmunity Mouse Model
Background/Purpose: Past studies reported lymphopenia mouse transfer model which transfer CD4+CD25- cells from wild-type BALB/c mouse into athymic nude BALB/c mice produce lupus-like systemic autoantibodies…