| Literature DB >> 1606725 |
K B Bodman1, N Sumar, L E Mackenzie, D A Isenberg, F C Hay, I M Roitt, P M Lydyard.
Abstract
The percentage of oligosaccharide chains lacking galactose was measured in IgG obtained from pokeweed mitogen-activated cultures of blood lymphocytes from patients with rheumatoid arthritis and controls. Secreted IgG from rheumatoid arthritis lymphocytes was deficient in galactose compared with IgG from the lymphocytes of controls. This confirms that agalactosylation is a significant feature of the disease and demonstrates that it can occur at the B cell level and is not merely a post-secretory event.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID: 1606725 PMCID: PMC1554493 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1992.tb06465.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Exp Immunol ISSN: 0009-9104 Impact factor: 4.330