Long-term followup of patients with Sjogren's syndrome (1996)
Bijlsma, J.W.J., Kater, L., Feltkamp, T.E.W., Bijsterveld, O.P. Van, ...
Asherson, R.A., Harris, E.N., Bouma, B.N., Gharavi, A.E., Kater, L., ...
Twelve patients with chorea from a population of 500 patients with SLE and “lupus-like” disease were reviewed. Clinical histories, including time relationships of chorea to the systemic illness...
Plasma-exchange in the treatment of severe thyrotoxicosis in pregnancy (1984)
Poortman, J., Wiel, A. Van De, Kinderen, P.J. Der, Kater, L.
Three female patients with severe thyrotoxicosis, two of them pregnant 22 and 16 wk, respectively, were treated with plasma-exchange (PE) combined with anti-thyroid drugs. In both pregnant patients...
Purine metabolism in intra-thymic T-cell differentiation: relevance for T-cell function (1982)
Schuurman, H.J., Figdor, C.G., Brekelmans, P., Spierenburg, G.T., Broekhuizen, R., ...
Human thymic epithelial conditioned medium (HTECM), but not control conditioned media, has been shown previously to enhance the Con A and PHA responsiveness of human and mouse thymocytes and the PHA...
Target cell subpopulations for human thymic epithelial conditioned medium in the mouse thymus (1980)
Human thymic epithelial conditioned medium (HTECM) increases the reactivity of human and mouse thymocytes to Con A and PHA, and the reactivity of mouse thymocytes in mixed lymphocyte culture and in...
Oosterom, R., Kater, L., Oosterom, J.
The conditioned media from a variety of human tissue cultures, thymus, HeLa cells, labial epithelium, salivary glands, and fibroblasts, were examined for their effect on the response of human and...
Selective deficiency of immunoglobulin A2.
Van Loghem, E, Zegers, B J, Bast, E J, Kater, L
A case of familial selective IgA2 deficiency is described. The mother had no detectable IgA2, but a low level of IgA1. She had anti-alpha 2 antibodies of the IgG class. One of her daughters also...
Morphometric study of histological changes in sublabial salivary glands due to aging process.
De Wilde, P C, Baak, J P, Van Houwelingen, J C, Kater, L, Slootweg, P J
The sublabial salivary glands were studied by morphometric methods in 68 healthy volunteers to establish possible changes related to age in those tissue components that are affected in Sjögren's...
Bodeutsch, C, De Wilde, P C, Kater, L, Van Den Hoogen, F H, Hené, R J, Van Houwelingen, J C, ...
AIMS: To determine the prevalence of plasma cell monotypia in labial salivary gland tissue of patients with and without Sjögren's syndrome, and to evaluate its relation to the development of...
Selective deficiency of immunoglobulin A2.
Van Loghem, E, Zegers, B J, Bast, E J, Kater, L
A case of familial selective IgA2 deficiency is described. The mother had no detectable IgA2, but a low level of IgA1. She had anti-alpha 2 antibodies of the IgG class. One of her daughters also...
Morphometric study of histological changes in sublabial salivary glands due to aging process.
De Wilde, P C, Baak, J P, Van Houwelingen, J C, Kater, L, Slootweg, P J
The sublabial salivary glands were studied by morphometric methods in 68 healthy volunteers to establish possible changes related to age in those tissue components that are affected in Sjögren's...
Bodeutsch, C, De Wilde, P C, Kater, L, Van Den Hoogen, F H, Hené, R J, Van Houwelingen, J C, ...
AIMS: To determine the prevalence of plasma cell monotypia in labial salivary gland tissue of patients with and without Sjögren's syndrome, and to evaluate its relation to the development of...
De Maagd, R A, MacKenzie, W A, Schuurman, H J, Ritter, M A, Price, K M, Broekhuizen, R, ...
Monoclonal antibodies were raised against human thymus stromal cells and their specificity for the epithelial component of thymus stroma assessed by double immunofluorescence using anti-keratin...
Velthuis, P J, Kater, L, Meyling, F G, Derksen, R H, Hené, R J, ...
Immunofluorescence microscopy of the skin has disclosed antibodies bound to epidermal cell nuclei in several connective tissue disorders. To establish the diagnostic potential of this phenomenon the...
Velthuis, P J, Kater, L, De La Faille, H B, Van Vloten, W A
Many papers have been published on the lupus band in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but little information exists on the possible diagnostic value of the lupus band and other microscopic...
Kruize, A A, Hené, R J, Kallenberg, C G, Van Bijsterveld, O P, Kater, L, ...
OBJECTIVES--In 1985 and 1988 a positive effect of treatment of primary Sjögren's syndrome with hydroxychloroquine was reported in two small open studies. To investigate further the clinical and...
Derksen, R H, De Groot, P G, Kater, L, Nieuwenhuis, H K
OBJECTIVE--To determine whether the finding of antiphospholipid antibodies in patients with venous thromboembolic episodes should influence the duration of treatment with anticoagulant drugs by...
Vitali, C, Bombardieri, S, Moutsopoulos, H M, Coll, J, Gerli, R, Hatron, P Y, ...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the recently proposed preliminary criteria for the classification of Sjögren's syndrome (SS) in a multicentre European study of a new series of clinically defined cases....
Deforming arthropathy or lupus and rhupus hands in systemic lupus erythematosus
Van Vugt, R M, Derksen, R, Kater, L, Bijlsma, J
OBJECTIVE—Although deforming arthropathy in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterised by a number of manifestations, definitive criteria for the different forms have not yet been...
Kruize, A, Van Bijsterveld, O P, Hene, R, Feltkamp, T, Kater, L, ...
AIMS—To assess the course of tear gland function of patients with keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) associated with primary (KCS-PSS) or secondary Sjögren's syndrome (KCS-SSS), and of patients with...
Heijnen, C J, Pot, K H, Kater, L, Kluin-Nelemans, H C, Uytdehaag, F, Ballieux, R E
The investigation described here is concerned with the T cell regulation of the antigen-specific antibody response which has been studied in patients suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus...
Schuurman, H J, Hendriks, R W, Lange, J M, Van Der Linden, J A, Gmelig Meyling, F H, Danner, S A, ...
We investigated the in vitro effect of cultured human thymic epithelial monolayer cells on mononuclear cells (MNC) from patients with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related...
Sjögren's syndrome in patients with chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy
Van Dijk, G W, Notermans, N, Kater, L, Kruize, A, Linssen, W, Wokke, J
OBJECTIVE—To assess the presence of symptoms and signs of Sjögren's syndrome in patients with otherwise idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy and to develop guidelines for the diagnostic approach with...