Cytokine mRNA and protein expression in primary-culture and repeated-passage synovial fibroblasts from patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Constitutive mRNA expression and secretion of proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines was comparatively analyzed in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) synovial fibroblasts (SFB), isolated from primary culture or derived by repeated passage; normal-skin fibroblasts were used as controls. First-passage...

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Main Authors: Hirth, Astrid, Skapenko, Alla, Kinne, Raimund W, Emmrich, Frank, Schulze-Koops, Hendrik, Sack, Ulrich
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2002
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC83845/