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Pregnancy in patients with rheumatic disease: anti-inflammatory cytokines increase in pregnancy and decrease post partum
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- Published on: 16 February 2005
- Published on: 16 February 2005Anti-inflammatory cytokine activity in pregnant women with rheumatoid arthritisShow More
Dear Editor,
We read with interest the analysis of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines in pregnant women with chronic inflammatory arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and ankylosing spondylitis, recently described by Oestensen et al [1].
Besides direct measurement of cytokine serum levels, they analysed the levels of soluble CD30 (sCD30), a surface protein...
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