Exhausted T cells in systemic lupus erythematosus patients in long-standing remission .
Short title: Exhausted T cells in SLE
Guadalupe Lima*, Francisco Treviño-Tello*, Yemil Atisha-Fregoso‡§, Luis Llorente*, Hilda Fragoso-Loyo*, Juan Jakez-Ocampo*
*Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico.
Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine at Northwell Health, Manhasset, New York, USA.
§Institute of Molecular Medicine, the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, USA.
These authors have contributed equally to this work.
Correspondence:
Juan Jakez-Ocampo: jjakez_ocampo@yahoo.com or Hilda Fragoso-Loyo: hfragosol@gmail.com
Key words: Clinical remission in SLE; T cell exhaustion; Clustering analysis.
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