54 SLE patients without nephritis, 35 with nephritis but without dialysis, and 4 with nephritis under dialysis exhibited stepwise increases in IL-23 (<i>p</i>=0.009) and MCP-1 (<i>p</i>=0.015).
54 SLE patients without nephritis, 35 with nephritis but without dialysis, and 4 with nephritis under dialysis exhibited stepwise increases in IL-23 (<i>p</i>=0.009) and MCP-1 (<i>p</i>=0.015).
Nephritis-associated plasmin receptor (NAPlr) was originally isolated from group A streptococci as the protein responsible for acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis, and was shown to be identical to streptococcal glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH).