Soluble CD23 levels and their correlation with erythrocyte sedimentation rate and with copy number of Epstein-Barr virus genome in rheumatoid arthritis patients

Correlation between the presence of anti

Correlation between the presence of antibodies to the Epstein-barr virus nuclear antigen type 2 and antibodies to the rheumatoid arthritis nuclear antigen in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

✍ Thomas B. Sculley; John H. Pope; Ron A. Hazelton 📂 Article 📅 1986 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 643 KB

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