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Local antigen trapping in the cartilaginous intra-articular structures can be present without histological evidence of synovitis and is therefore, not necessarily causally related to chronic inflammation.
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Acknowledgment. This work was supported by the Medical Research Council of Canada (No. MA-5061) and the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society (No. 15-180-(73). The authors wish to thank Mr.E. Picard for his help with the animals, and Mrs.T. Carrier for typing the manuscript.
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Ménard, H.A., Dion, J. Is local antigen persistence responsible for the chronicity of the experimental immune arthritis of the rabbit?. Experientia 32, 1474–1475 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01937443
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