40 research outputs found

    The role of mucosal inflammation in initiation of rheumatoid arthritis

    Get PDF
    Reumatoïde artritis is een auto-immuunziekte die is gekarakteriseerd door chronische ontsteking van synoviale gewrichten wat kan leiden tot onomkeerbare gewrichtsschade. Vroege behandeling is van groot belang om progressie van de ziekte te stoppen. Vroege herkenning is daarom erg belangrijk. Reumatoïde artritis is gekarakteriseerd door de aanwezigheid van autoantistoffen gericht tegen gecitrullineerde eiwitten (ACPA) en reumafactor (RF). Het onderzoek focuste op de vraag of mucosale ontsteking, zoals parodontitis, chronische ontsteking van de longen en IBD de productie van autoantistoffen kenmerkend voor reumatoïde artritis stimuleert. Met name parodontitis is gesuggereerd een rol te spelen bij de initiatie van reumatoïde artritis geassocieerde autoantistoffen door de bacterie Porphyromonas gingivalis. Inderdaad bleek dat de aanwezigheid van deze autoantistoffen in patienten zonder reumatoide artritis was geassocieerd met parodontitis en chronische ontsteking van de longen, alhoewel de speigels over het algemeen laag waren. Ook werden immunologische veranderingen in seropositive artralgia patiënten (ACPA en/of RF positief) onderzocht om immuun markers te identificeren die mogelijk een rol spelen in de ontwikkeling van reumatoïde artritis

    Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

    Get PDF
    A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements

    Measurements of top-quark pair differential cross-sections in the eμe\mu channel in pppp collisions at s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector

    Get PDF

    Measurement of the W boson polarisation in ttˉt\bar{t} events from pp collisions at s\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV in the lepton + jets channel with ATLAS

    Get PDF

    Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collision data at s=8TeV\sqrt{s}=8\,\mathrm TeV{} with the ATLAS detector

    Get PDF

    Charged-particle distributions at low transverse momentum in s=13\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV pppp interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    Get PDF

    Search for dark matter in association with a Higgs boson decaying to bb-quarks in pppp collisions at s=13\sqrt s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    Get PDF
    corecore