Association of rheumatoid arthritis and primary osteoarthritis with changes in the glycosylation pattern of total serum IgG

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a widely prevalent (1–3%) chronic systemic disease thought to have an autoimmune component 1 ; both humoral 1–4 and cellular 5,6 mechanisms have been implicated. Primary osteoarthritis (OA) is considered to be distinct from rheumatoid arthritis, and here damage is though...

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