Associations between clinical features and therapy with macrophage subpopulations and T cells in inflammatory lesions in the aorta from patients with Takayasu arteritis
Author(s) -
Santos J. P.,
Artigiani Neto R.,
Mangueira C. L. P.,
Filippi R. Z.,
Gutierrez P. S.,
Westra J.,
Brouwer E.,
Souza A. W. S.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical & experimental immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.329
H-Index - 135
eISSN - 1365-2249
pISSN - 0009-9104
DOI - 10.1111/cei.13489
Subject(s) - cd68 , medicine , macrophage , giant cell arteritis , cd8 , pathology , vasculitis , immunology , cd86 , cd20 , prednisone , t cell , immune system , immunohistochemistry , biology , disease , biochemistry , in vitro
M1 macrophages were more frequent in TAK and atherosclerotic patients compared to heart transplant donors. The expression of CD206 is higher than the expression of CD86 in the aorta from TAK patients. T cells were associated with histological disease activity and with prednisone use in TAK.
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