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Alf Kastbom

Senior Associate Professor

My research group works to detect rheumatoid arthritis before the disease has broken out and to understand the mechanisms behind it. This would open up the possibility of being able to prevent the disease in the future.

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Publications

2024

Anna Svärd, Riccardo Lomartire, Klara Martinsson, Carina Oehman, Alf Kastbom, Anders Johansson (2024) Presence and Immunoreactivity of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans in Rheumatoid Arthritis Pathogens, Vol. 13, Article 368 Continue to DOI
Tomas Weitoft, Johan Ronnelid, Anders Lind, Charlotte de Vries, Anders Larsson, Barbara Potempa, Jan Potempa, Alf Kastbom, Klara Martinsson, Karin Lundberg, Marieann Hogman (2024) Exhaled Nitric Oxide Reflects the Immune Reactions of the Airways in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Biomedicines, Vol. 12, Article 964 Continue to DOI
Violetta Dubovyk, Georgios K. Vasileiadis, Tahzeeb Fatima, Yuan Zhang, Meliha Crnkic Kapetanovic, Alf Kastbom, Milad Rizk, Annika Soederbergh, Sizheng Steven Zhao, Ronald F. van Vollenhoven, Merete Lund Hetland, Espen A. Haavardsholm, Dan Nordstrom, Michael T. Nurmohamed, Bjorn Gudbjornsson, Jon Lampa, Mikkel Ostergaard, Marte Schrumpf Heiberg, Tuulikki Sokka-Isler, Gerdur Grondal, Kristina Lend, Kim Horslev-Petersen, Till Uhlig, Anna Rudin, Cristina Maglio (2024) Obesity is a risk factor for poor response to treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis: a NORD-STAR study RMD Open, Vol. 10, Article e004227 Continue to DOI
Cecilia Hemgren, Klara Martinsson, Christopher Rooney, Jonas Wetterö, Kulveer Mankia, Paul Emery, Alf Kastbom (2024) Elevated Serum Levels of Zonulin Family Peptides in Anticitrullinated Protein Antibody-Positive At-Risk Individuals Without Arthritis Journal of Rheumatology, Vol. 51, p. 134-138 Continue to DOI
Simon Åhammar, Klara Martinsson, Michael Ziegelasch, Alf Kastbom (2024) Prognostic value of serum protein electrophoresis constituents for arthritis development in anti-citrullinated protein antibody-positive patients with musculoskeletal pain Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology Continue to DOI

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Organisation

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Division of Inflammation and Infection (II)

The Division of Inflammation and Infection (II) includes clinical subject areas such as Immunology, Rheumatology, Pathology and Microbiology.

Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV)

What characterizes the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV) is the wide breadth of research and education. BKV is one of the largest departments at LiU with affiliation mainly to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.
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Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (MEDFAK)

The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences conducts research and education within medicine, healthcare and public health.

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