… Through the interaction with the bridging ligands Gas6 and protein S, MerTK recognizes
apoptotic cells facilitating their phagocytosis; this physiological process of clearance is …

Background and aim Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease;
the clinical manifestations are correlated with continuum multiarticular synovitis, cartilage …

… Some risk factors are known and include combination of persistent Raynaud’s phenomenon,
steroid hormone imbalance, selected chemicals, thermal, or other injuries. Endogenous and…

… Finally, bivariate Pearson’s correlation was calculated to measure linear relationship
between two variables with ordinal distribution. A p-value lower than 0.05 was considered as …

Glucocorticoids (GC) exert many complex quantitative and qualitative immunosuppressive
effects that induce cellular immunodeficiency and consequently might increase host …

… At basal temperature, FBP measurement was started 30–60 s after probe positioning on the
central area of each fingertip, waiting for the minimal variation of the perfusion wave, and the …

An M2 pre-eminent phenotype has been postulated for SSc monocytes/macrophages. 2 The
aim of the study was to widen a phenotype characterisation (M1, M2 and mixed M1/M2) of …

Introduction Co-stimulatory signal B7(CD80/CD86):CD28 is needed in order to activate T
cells in immune response. Cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen-4-immunoglobulin (…

Objective. We evaluated endothelin (ET)-1 plasma levels and some clinical measures in
patients with primary Raynaud’s phenomenon (PRP), and in patients with systemic sclerosis (…

… (SD) using Tukey-Kramer multiple comparisons non-parametric post-test (ANOVA system)
and box plots, in which the group medians were compared by non-parametric Dunn’s test. All …