Arthritis Research & Therapy

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Open Access Research article

Perforin deficiency attenuates collagen-induced arthritis

Kristin Bauer1, Annika Knipper1, Hoang Tu-Rapp1, Dirk Koczan1, Hans-Jürgen Kreutzer2, Horst Nizze2, Eilhard Mix3, Hans-Juergen Thiesen1, Rikard Holmdahl4 and Saleh M Ibrahim1*

Author Affiliations

1 Institute of Immunology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

2 Institute of Pathology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

3 Institute of Neurology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

4 Section for Medical Inflammation Research, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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Arthritis Research & Therapy 2005, 7:R877-R884 doi:10.1186/ar1758

Published: 20 May 2005

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Additional File 1:

A TIFF file showing the perforin mRNA expression level in CD8+ T cells of perforin-deficient, heterozygous and wild-type mice as well as the perforin mRNA expression level of healthy and inflamed joints from wild-type mice.

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