Jose Marques Lopes, PhD, —
José is a science news writer with a PhD in Neuroscience from Universidade of Porto, in Portugal. He has also studied Biochemistry at Universidade do Porto and was a postdoctoral associate at Weill Cornell Medicine, in New York, and at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. His work has ranged from the association of central cardiovascular and pain control to the neurobiological basis of hypertension, and the molecular pathways driving Alzheimer’s disease.

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March 17, 2017 by Jose Marques Lopes, PhD

Chinese Study Links High Autoantibody Levels Against PD-1 to Lupus Disease Activity

Patients with new-onset lupus erythematosus (SLE) have high levels of autoantibodies against programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), an immune response co-inhibitor, new research from China shows. The study, “Elevated serum autoantibodies against co-inhibitory PD-1 facilitate T cell proliferation and correlate with disease activity in new-onset systemic…

Jose Marques Lopes, PhD, —

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Chinese Study Links High Autoantibody Levels Against PD-1 to Lupus Disease Activity

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