Publication Date:
1991-08-30
Description:
Human T cell leukemia virus type-I (HTLV-I) is the etiologic agent of adult T cell leukemia and has also been suggested to be involved in other diseases such as chronic arthritis or myelopathy. To elucidate pathological roles of the virus in disease, transgenic mice were produced that carry the HTLV-I genome. At 2 to 3 months of age, many of the mice developed chronic arthritis resembling rheumatoid arthritis. Synovial and periarticular inflammation with articular erosion caused by invasion of granulation tissues were marked. These observations suggest a possibility that HTLV-I is one of the etiologic agents of chronic arthritis in humans.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Iwakura, Y -- Tosu, M -- Yoshida, E -- Takiguchi, M -- Sato, K -- Kitajima, I -- Nishioka, K -- Yamamoto, K -- Takeda, T -- Hatanaka, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1991 Aug 30;253(5023):1026-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1887217" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Arthritis, Rheumatoid/*genetics/pathology/physiopathology
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Genes, Viral
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Human T-lymphotropic virus 1/*genetics
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Inflammation
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Joints/pathology
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred Strains
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Mice, Transgenic
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RNA, Messenger/genetics
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Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
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Viral Envelope Proteins/genetics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
