Abstracts tagged "Neutrophil Extracellular Traps and innate immunity"

Abstract Number: 2745 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Plasma of Patients with Active Behçet´s Disease (BD) Increases Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Formation, Oxidative Metabolism and NADPH-Oxidase Expression in Normal and BD Neutrophils, and Carries Several Neutrophil Stimulating Factors
Sandro F. Perazzio^1,2, Paulo Vitor Soeiro Pereira³, Alexandre W. S. de Souza¹, Antonio Condino-Neto³ and Luis Eduardo C. Andrade^2,4, ¹Rheumatology, Escola Paulista de Medicina - Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ²Fleury Medicine and Health, Sao Paulo, Brazil, ³Immunology, ICB IV - Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, ⁴Fleury Laboratories, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Background/Purpose Plasma factors seem to play a role in Behçet’s disease (BD) pathogenesis, especially by increasing phagocyte oxidative profile. No data exists regarding neutrophil extracellular…