Abstract:Background: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is generally considered a clinical syndrome involving several disease subsets, with a number of inflammatory flows, leading to an eventual common pathway in which persistent synovial inflammation and associated damage to articular cartilage and underlying bone are present. Neoptrin is a reliable marker in the assessment of the rate of IFN-γ production. Levels of neoptrin increase in direct proportion with the level of interferon. Measurement of neopterin level is… Show more
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