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J E Salmon1, L Pricop

  • 1Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA.

Arthritis and Rheumatism
|April 24, 2001
PubMed

The structural diversity of Fc gammaR provides a mechanism by which IgG can elicit a broad range of cell responses. Fc gammaR vary in their affinity for IgG, their preference for IgG subclasses, the cell types in which they are expressed, and the intracellular signals which they elicit--stimulatory or inhibitory. Expansion in our knowledge of structure-function relationships among Fc gammaR has identified them as heritable risk factors for disease susceptibility and valuable targets for therapeutic modulation of the immune system.

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