| Dendritic cells and the battle against arthritis | |
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In a murine model for rheumatoid arthritis, we wished to investigated whether it was possible to skew the immune response with a cellular vaccin to protect the mice against the induction and/or progeression of arthritis. the model that was used for this purpose was Collagen-Induced Arthritis (CIA). As dendritic cells (DCs) are the main antigen-presenting cells and key players in setting immune responses and connecting innate witth adaptive immunity, it is favorable to use these cells to manipulate the immune system to circumvent autoimmunity, in this case CIA. Because CIA is still implicated as a Th1-mediated disease, the aim was to skew the immune system towards a more Th2-like phenotype or to induce a T cell with a regulatory capacity. Therefore, several ways to stimulate DCs and subsequently the evolving T cell response were selected, to analyze whether Th2 cells or regulatory T cells were activated, resulting in the inhibition of arthritis. |
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van Duivenvoorde, Leonie Maria |
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Publisher : Department of Rheumatology, Medicine / Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden University Type : Doctoral thesis Format : application/pdf, application/msword, application/pdf |
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2007-10-10 |
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Arthritis, Autoimmunity, Dendritic cells, Mouse model |
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Languages : en |
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