Abstracts tagged "T cells and B cells"

Abstract Number: 2561 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Deep Remission During Induction Therapy for Lupus Nephritis Prevents Damage Accrual and Associates with the Baseline Proportions of Peripheral Treg, CD8+ T Cells, and NKT-like Cells
Jun Kikuchi¹, Hironari Hanaoka ¹, Shuntaro Saito ¹, Tatsuhiro Oshige ¹, Kazuoto Hiramoto ¹, Yuko Kaneko ¹, Noriyasu Seki ², Hideto Tsujimoto ² and Tsutomu Takeuchi ¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, ²Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation Sohyaku. Innovative Research Division, Toda-shi, Saitama, Japan
Background/Purpose: chievement of renal remission has been the target of the induction therapy in patients with active lupus nephritis (LN). Deep remission (DR) defined as…