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MODERN RHEUMATOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 391-397Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/14397595.2015.1089973
Keywords
Chronic inflammation; Germinal center; IgG4-related disease; Interleukin-32; Tuberculosis
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- Minako Shiokawa Young Investor's Award for Collagen Disease Research, Japan Rheumatism Foundation
- Research on Measures for Intractable Diseases Project matching fund from Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, Japan
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Objectives: In immunoglobulin (Ig) G4-related disease (IgG4-RD), the mechanism of chronic inflammation and predictive factors for drug-free remission is still unclear. To examine the issues, we focused on tuberculosis, a chronic infection, and on the role of interleukin (IL)-32. Methods: We examined the positive rate of QuantiFERON TB-2G (QFT-2G) in 126 patients with IgG4-RD, and compared with the rate in the general population. Furthermore, specimens of submandibular glands from the maintenance treatment group and drug-free group of IgG4-RD and specimens of small salivary glands from primary Sjogren's syndrome (SS) were stained with anti-IL-32 antibody and anti-protease-activated receptor 2 antibody, and the number of positive cells was compared between these groups. Results: The positive rate of QFT-2G was 19.8% in IgG4-RD patients, which is higher than in the general population. The expression of IL-32 and PAR2 in the submandibular glands of the maintenance treatment group of IgG4-RD was significantly greater than that of the drug-free remission group and SS patients. Conclusions: This study indicates the possibility that IL-32 is associated with chronic inflammation and that it can be a predictive factor for drug-free remission in IgG4-RD.
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