Enhanced Th17-Cell Responses Render CCR2-Deficient Mice More Susceptible for Autoimmune Arthritis

Rishi R. Rampersad; Teresa K. Tarrant; Christopher T. Vallanat; Tatiana Quintero-Matthews; Michael F. Weeks; Denise A. Esserman; Jennifer Clark; Franco Di Padova; Dhavalkumar D. Patel; Alan M. Fong; Peng Liu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025833

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Enhanced Th17-Cell Responses Render CCR2-Deficient Mice More Susceptible for Autoimmune Arthritis

Rishi R. Rampersad,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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Teresa K. Tarrant,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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Christopher T. Vallanat,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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Tatiana Quintero-Matthews,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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Michael F. Weeks,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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Denise A. Esserman,

Affiliations Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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Jennifer Clark,

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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Franco Di Padova,

Affiliation Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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Dhavalkumar D. Patel,

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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Alan M. Fong,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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Peng Liu

* E-mail: liupz@med.unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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Enhanced Th17-Cell Responses Render CCR2-Deficient Mice More Susceptible for Autoimmune Arthritis

Rishi R. Rampersad,
Teresa K. Tarrant,
Christopher T. Vallanat,
Tatiana Quintero-Matthews,
Michael F. Weeks,
Denise A. Esserman,
Jennifer Clark,
Franco Di Padova,
Dhavalkumar D. Patel,
Alan M. Fong

Published: October 4, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025833

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