Serum keratan sulphate levels rise in rheumatoid arthritis patients, but fall in ankylosing spondylitis patients compared with normal controls.

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  • R Will
  • J Elswood
  • L Edmunds
  • A Calin
چکیده

Serum levels of keratan sulphate (KS) were found to be significantly elevated in patients with destructive and predominantly seronegative rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared with a control population. Levels in RA did not correlate with clinical or laboratory indices of joint activity or damage. Conversely levels were depressed in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) compared with controls.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Biochemical Society transactions

دوره 18 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1990