PROINFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES (TNF alpha and IL-6) IN EGYPTIAN SLE PATIENTS WITH LUPUS NEPHRITIS Is it correlated with disease activity?
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Systemic lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a rheumatic autoimmune disease characterized by multisystem organ involvement and by high titers of autoantibodies against several nuclear and cytoplasmic antigens (1). Numerous abnormalities of the cytokine network have been described in patients suffering from SLE as well as in murine lupus models. Some of them were shown to play a pivotal physiopathological role in certain PROINFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES (TNF alpha and IL-6) IN EGYPTIAN SLE PATIENTS WITH LUPUS NEPHRITIS Is it correlated with disease activity?
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