4 results match your criteria: "Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris-Sud-Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP)[Affiliation]"

Objectives: Various rheumatoid arthritis (RA) HLA-DRB-1 risk haplotypes have been regrouped under the shared epitope (SE) in position 70-74. The presence of Valine in position 11 (Val11) and phenylalanine in position 13 (Phe13) are also associated with RA, but it is impossible to differentiate their role compared with the SE since they are in strong linkage disequilibrium (LD) in humans. Similar to humans, certain macaques express the SE (H6).

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Methotrexate and BAFF interaction prevents immunization against TNF inhibitors.

Ann Rheum Dis

October 2018

Rheumatology Department, Université Paris-Sud-CEA-INSERM U1184, Immunology of Viral Infections and Autoimmune Diseases, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris-Sud-Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France.

Objectives: TNF inhibitors (TNFi) can induce anti-drug antibodies (ADA) in patients with autoimmune diseases (AID) leading to clinical resistance. We explored a new way of using methotrexate (MTX) to decrease this risk of immunisation.

Methods: We treated BAFF transgenic (BAFFtg) mice, a model of AID in which immunisation against biologic drugs is high, with different TNFi.

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