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From: Type II collagen antibody response is enriched in the synovial fluid of rheumatoid joints and directed to the same major epitopes as in collagen induced arthritis in primates and mice

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Epitope-specific response in human rheumatoid arthritis and nonhuman primate species. (A), (B) Antibody responses to the major collagen type II (CII) epitopes and to entire triple-helical rat CII in nonhuman primates (rhesus monkeys and common marmosets). The serum dilution required for each individual to reach the cutoff absorbance value was calculated and is depicted on the y axis. All animals with antibody titers below the detection limit were assigned a value of 1. (C) Antibody responses to major CII epitopes in sera from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and healthy control (HC) subjects. All individuals with antibody titers below the detection limit for positivity were assigned a value of 0.1. Each data point represents one individual: dotted lines, cutoff value for positivity; horizontal red lines, median. (D) Antibody responses to major CII epitopes in sera and synovial fluid (SF) from RA patients. After normalization based on the values for total IgG, the levels of anti-C1, anti-U1, and anti-J1 antibodies were determined in paired samples of serum and SF from 290 RA patients. AU, arbitrary units. *P < 0.05, ***P < 0.001. Values are the mean ± standard error of the mean.

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Arthritis Research & Therapy

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