The quest for autoreactive antibodies in nasal polyps

Els De Schryver; Lien Calus; Henryk Bonte; De Ruyck Natalie; Hannah Gould; Erin Donovan; Dirk Elewaut; Rudolf Valenta; Irene Mittermann; Jan Gutermuth; Tanja Seher; Robert P Schleimer; Bruce K Tan; Lara Derycke; Thibaut Van Zele; Claus Bachert; Philippe Gevaert

doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2016.03.040

The quest for autoreactive antibodies in nasal polyps

J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2016 Sep;138(3):893-895.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2016.03.040. Epub 2016 May 6.

Authors

Els De Schryver¹, Lien Calus¹, Henryk Bonte¹, De Ruyck Natalie², Hannah Gould³, Erin Donovan⁴, Dirk Elewaut⁵, Rudolf Valenta⁶, Irene Mittermann⁶, Jan Gutermuth⁷, Tanja Seher⁸, Robert P Schleimer⁹, Bruce K Tan⁹, Lara Derycke¹, Thibaut Van Zele¹, Claus Bachert¹⁰, Philippe Gevaert¹¹

Affiliations

¹ Upper Airways Research Laboratory, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
² Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
³ Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics and Division of Allergy, Asthma and Lung Biology, London, United Kingdom.
⁴ GE01, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
⁵ GE01, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium; Unit for Molecular Immunology and Inflammation, Inflammation Research Center, VIB, Ghent, Belgium.
⁶ Division of Immunopathology, Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Centre for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁷ Department of Dermatology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; Center of Allergy & Environment (ZAUM), Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany.
⁸ Center of Allergy & Environment (ZAUM), Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany.
⁹ Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill.
¹⁰ Upper Airways Research Laboratory, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium; Division of ENT Diseases, Clintec, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹¹ Upper Airways Research Laboratory, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: philippe.gevaert@UGent.be.

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Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Antibodies / immunology*
Case-Control Studies
Cell Line, Tumor
Female
Humans
Immunoglobulins / immunology
Male
Middle Aged
Nasal Mucosa / microbiology
Nasal Polyps / immunology*
Nasal Polyps / microbiology
Staphylococcus aureus / immunology
Young Adult

Substances

Antibodies
Immunoglobulins

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