Circulating TFH subset distribution is strongly affected in lupus patients with an active disease.
Follicular helper T cells (TFH) represent a distinct subset of CD4(+) T cells specialized in providing help to B lymphocytes, which may play a central role in autoimmune diseases having a major B cell component such as systemic lupus erythematosus. Recently, TFH subsets that share common phenotypic...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3777901?pdf=render |