| Literature DB >> 8187450 |
R Gorla1, P Airò, A Malagoli, G Carella, E Prati, D Brugnoni, F Franceschini, R Cattaneo.
Abstract
Systemic Sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma) is associated with several immunological abnormalities, including altered proportion between lymphocyte subsets. Peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets from 25 patients with SSc were studied by two-colour flow cytometry using monoclonal antibodies against CD45RA and CD29 markers, which allow a dissection of CD4+ and CD8+ populations into 'naive' and 'memory' subsets. A decrease of the percentage of CD8+ (p < 0.05) and of CD8+CD29+ (p < 0.001) cells was observed compared to that in 20 age and sex-matched controls. These abnormalities were not significantly associated with the extension of cutaneous disease or other clinical features of SSc nor with treatment, pattern of autoantibodies or HLA phenotype.Entities:
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Year: 1994 PMID: 8187450 DOI: 10.1007/bf02229871
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Rheumatol ISSN: 0770-3198 Impact factor: 2.980