Abstracts tagged "monocytes and thrombosis"

Abstract Number: 1963 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Thrombospondin-1 Is Elevated in the Plasma of Patients with Antiphospholipid Syndrome and Is Correlated with Free Active TGF-b1 Levels, IL-1b and IL-17A
Markos Patsouras, Athanasios G. Tzioufas and Panayiotis G Vlachoyiannopoulos, School of Medicine, Pathophysiology Department, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Background/Purpose: Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an acquired thombophillia characterized by recurrent thromboembolism and pregnancy morbidity. Thrombospondin (TSP-1) is a matricellular glycoprotein secreted by platelets upon…