Abstract Number: 2731 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Th1 and Th17 Cytokines Drive Takayasu Arteritis Inflammation
Background/Purpose: Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a large-vessel vasculitis inducing damage of the aorta and its branches. Glucocorticoids remain the gold standard of therapy in TA.…Abstract Number: 806 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Association of a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) in IL-12B Region with Clinical Features and Peripheral T Cell Profiles of Patients with Takayasu Arteritis
Background/Purpose We preliminarily found a SNP (A vs. C, rs6871626) in IL-12B region as a susceptibility gene to Takayasu arteritis (TAK) by genome-wide association study. IL-12Bencodes IL-12/IL-23…