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• Autoimmunity to specific citrullinated proteins gives the first clues to the etiology of rheumatoid arthritis.

  Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is now clearly a true autoimmune disease with accumulating evidence of pathogenic disease-specific autoimmunity to citrullin…

  Authors: Natalia Wegner, Karin Lundberg, Andrew Kinloch, Benjamin Fisher, Vivianne Malmström, Marc Feldmann, Patrick J Venables

  Source: Immunological reviews. 2010 Jan

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• Synovial fluid is a site of citrullination of autoantigens in inflammatory arthritis.

  OBJECTIVE: To examine synovial fluid as a site for generating citrullinated antigens, including the candidate autoantigen citrullinated alpha-enolase,…

  Authors: Andrew Kinloch, Karin Lundberg, Robin Wait, Natalia Wegner, Ngee Han Lim, Albert J W Zendman, Tore Saxne, Vivianne Malmström, Patrick J Venables

  Source: Arthritis and rheumatism. 2008 Aug

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• Antibodies to citrullinated alpha-enolase peptide 1 are specific for rheumatoid arthritis and cross-react with bacterial enolase.

  OBJECTIVE: To map the antibody response to human citrullinated alpha-enolase, a candidate autoantigen in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to examine cro…

  Authors: Karin Lundberg, Andrew Kinloch, Benjamin A Fisher, Natalia Wegner, Robin Wait, Peter Charles, Ted R Mikuls, Patrick J Venables

  Source: Arthritis and rheumatism. 2008 Oct

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• Evolutionarily conserved antigens in autoimmune disease: implications for an infective aetiology.

  The immune system has evolved to eliminate or inactivate infectious organisms. An inappropriate response against self-components (autoantigens) can re…

  Authors: Natalia Wegner, Robin Wait, Patrick J Venables

  Source: The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology. 2009 Feb

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