| Literature DB >> 2880382 |
P Nykänen, V Bergroth, P Raunio, D Nordström, Y T Konttinen.
Abstract
Tritiated-thymidine incorporating cells in synovial tissue samples from ten patients with definite or classic rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were studied by combining two techniques. Tritiated-thymidine-labelled cells were seen in autoradiography and simultaneously the subtype of them was determined with immunoperoxidase staining using monoclonal antibodies. Tritiated-thymidine-labelled cells comprised 0.8 +/- 0.4% of all the inflammatory cells in RA synovial membrane. Of all 3H-thymidine-labelled cells 34 +/- 17% were positive for OKT8 and 19 +/- 8% for OKT4 monoclonal antibodies. OKM1-positive cells comprised 7 +/- 3% of all 3H-thymidine labelled cells, whereas only a few (3 +/- 4%) of them were positive for pan-B monoclonal antibody. This study emphasizes the importance of activated OKT8 lymphocytes in RA synovial membrane.Entities:
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Year: 1986 PMID: 2880382 DOI: 10.1007/bf00541318
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Rheumatol Int ISSN: 0172-8172 Impact factor: 2.631