Anti-collagen type v: a marker of early systemic sclerosis?
Michelle Remião Ugolini LopesElenice MantovaniVirgínia Lucia N BonoldiAna Cristina de Medeiros RibeiroEloisa BonfáNatalino YoshinariDanieli AndradePublished in: Advances in rheumatology (London, England) (2019)
The production of anti-collagen type V in SSc seems to be an early event independent of other antibodies specificities. Further studies are necessary to determine if the underlying mechanism for this chronology involves a primary immune response to abnormal expression of collagen type V.