Abstracts tagged "synovium and rituximab"

Abstract Number: 1754 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2012

Disruption of Dominant B-Cell and Plasma Cell Clones in Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovium by Rituximab Correlates with Treatment Response

Marieke E. Doorenspleet¹, Paul L. Klarenbeek¹, Maartje J. Boumans¹, Rogier M. Thurlings², Rebecca E. Esveldt¹, Barbera D. van Schaik³, Antoine H. van Kampen³, Danielle M. Gerlag⁴, Frank Baas⁵, Paul-Peter Tak¹, Robert M. Plenge⁶ and Niek de Vries¹, ¹Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center/University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Department of Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁴Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Academic Medical Center/University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁵Department of Genome Analysis, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy and Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA