Lack of Relationship Between the Epstein-Barr Virus and the Antiperinuclear Factor/'Perinuclear Antigen' System in Rheumatoid Arthritis
β Scribed by Marlyse Buisson; Jean Marie Berthelot; Paul Le Goff; Claude Chastel; Armelle Lamour; Jean Marie Seigneurin; Pierre Youinou
- Book ID
- 115621294
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 491 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0896-8411
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The incidence of antibodies to Epstein-Barr nucleair antigen type 2 (EBNA-2) was determined in sera from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and control subjects, by protein immunoblotting. Sixty-eight percent of the RA patients and 48% of the controls possessed anti-EBNA-2 antibodies. The titer of a
## Objective: To test the hypothesis that epstein-barr virus (ebv) infection of cells within the synovial membrane contributes to the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (ra). ## Methods: Biopsy samples of synovial membrane from 37 patients with ra and from 51 patients with other joint diseases
Lack of Epstein-Barr virus infection of synovial membranes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis