Serum Levels of Autoantibodies Against Extracellular Antigens and Neutrophil Granule Proteins Increase in Patients with COPD Compared to Non-COPD Smokers.
Aiping MaLifang WenJunping YinYi HuXiaoyang YueJiurong LiXiaoru DongYask GuptaPardis-Sadat Tabatabaei-PanahSusanne Krauss-EtschmannGabriela RiemekastenFrank PetersenXinhua YuPublished in: International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2020)
The comprehensive autoantibody profiles from COPD patients established in this study demonstrated for the first time a shift in the cellular localization of antigens targeted by autoantibodies in COPD.