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Arthritis
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 805875, 16 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/805875
Review Article

The Role of Different Subsets of Regulatory T Cells in Immunopathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Maryam Gol-Ara,1 Farhad Jadidi-Niaragh,1 Reza Sadria,1 Gholamreza Azizi,2 and Abbas Mirshafiey1

1Department of Immunology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 6446, Tehran 14155, Iran
2Imam Hassan Mojtaba Hospital, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran

Received 21 July 2012; Revised 11 September 2012; Accepted 20 September 2012

Academic Editor: Ruben Burgos-Vargas

Copyright © 2012 Maryam Gol-Ara et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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