Clinical cancer research : an official journal of…
2009
PURPOSE
Lung cancers with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-activating mutations show good clinical response to gefitinib and erlotinib, selective tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) to EGFR, but… (More)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disorder involving subsets of activated T cells, in particular T helper (Th) 1 and Th17 cells, which infiltrate and damage tissues… (More)
INTRODUCTION
Recent studies identified STAT4 (signal transducers and activators of transcription-4) as a susceptibility gene for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). STAT1 is encoded adjacently to… (More)
OBJECTIVE
To clarify the glucose-6-phosphate isomerase (GPI)-specific CD4+ T cell lineage involved in GPI-induced arthritis and to investigate their pathologic and regulatory roles in the induction… (More)
Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells play a protective role in the development of certain autoimmune diseases. However, their precise role in the pathogenesis of autoimmune arthritis remains… (More)
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of…
2010
PURPOSE
Global hypomethylation and the hypermethylation of gene promoter regions are common events in tumor DNA. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic significance of both global… (More)
Although corticosteroids and immunosuppressants are widely used for the treatments of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), safer and more effective therapies are prerequisite. We and others have… (More)
INTRODUCTION
TNFAIP3 interacting protein 1, TNIP1 (ABIN-1) is involved in inhibition of nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) activation by interacting with TNF alpha-induced protein 3, A20 (TNFAIP3), an… (More)
OBJECTIVE
To determine whether occurrence, characteristics, and progression of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are associated with polymorphism of the mannose binding lectin (MBL) gene and with… (More)
INTRODUCTION
The Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) gene, encoded on human chromosome Xp22.3, is crucial for type I interferon production. A recent multicenter study in East Asian populations, comprising… (More)