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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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2023

Shan Cao, Yixuan Li, Rui Song, Xianyi Meng, Maximilian Fuchs, Chunguang Liang, Katerina Kachler, Xinyu Meng, Jinming Wen, Ursula Schloetzer-Schrehardt, Verena Taudte, Arne Gessner, Meik Kunz, Ulrike Schleicher, Mario M. Zaiss, Alf Kastbom, Xiaoxiang Chen, Georg Schett, Aline Bozec (2023) L-arginine metabolism inhibits arthritis and inflammatory bone loss Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Continue to DOI
Mike Aoun, Ana Coelho, Alexander Kraemer, Amit Saxena, Pierre Sabatier, Christian Michel Beusch, Erik Loennblom, Manman Geng, Nhu-Nguyen Do, Zhongwei Xu, Jingdian Zhang, Yibo He, Laura Romero Castillo, Hassan Abolhassani, Bingze Xu, Johan Viljanen, Joanna Rorbach, Gonzalo Fernandez Lahore, Inger Gjertsson, Alf Kastbom, Christopher Sjöwall, Jan Kihlberg, Roman A. Zubarev, Harald Burkhardt, Rikard Holmdahl (2023) Antigen-presenting autoreactive B cells activate regulatory T cells and suppress autoimmune arthritis in mice Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol. 220, Article e20230101 Continue to DOI
Mikkel Ostergaard, Ronald F. van Vollenhoven, Anna Rudin, Merete Lund Hetland, Marte Schrumpf Heiberg, Dan C. Nordstrom, Michael T. Nurmohamed, Bjorn Gudbjornsson, Lykke Midtboll Ornbjerg, Pernille Boyesen, Kristina Lend, Kim Horslev-Petersen, Till Uhlig, Tuulikki Sokka, Gerdur Grondal, Simon Krabbe, Joakim Lindqvist, Inger Gjertsson, Daniel Glinatsi, Meliha Crnkic Kapetanovic, Anna-Birgitte Aga, Francesca Faustini, Pinja Parmanne, Tove Lorenzen, Cagnotto Giovanni, Johan Back, Oliver Hendricks, Daisy Vedder, Tuomas Rannio, Emma Grenholm, Maud Kristine Ljosa, Eli Brodin, Hanne Lindegaard, Annika Soderbergh, Milad Rizk, Alf Kastbom, Per Larsson, Line Uhrenholt, Soren Andreas Just, David J. Stevens, Trine Bay Laurbjerg, Gunnstein Bakland, Inge Christoffer Olsen, Espen A. Haavardsholm, Jon Lampa, NORD-STAR Study Grp (2023) Certolizumab pegol, abatacept, tocilizumab or active conventional treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis: 48-week clinical and radiographic results of the investigator-initiated randomised controlled NORD-STAR trial Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Continue to DOI
Klara Martinsson, Andrea Di Matteo, Carina Ohman, Anders Johansson, Anna Svärd, Kulveer Mankia, Paul Emery, Alf Kastbom (2023) Antibodies to leukotoxin A from the periodontal pathogen Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans in patients at an increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis Frontiers in Medicine, Vol. 10, Article 1176165 Continue to DOI
Anna Svärd, Alf Kastbom, Karin Roos Ljungberg, Barbara Potempa, Jan Potempa, G. Rutger Persson, Stefan Renvert, Johan Sanmartin Berglund, Maria K. Soderlin (2023) Antibodies against Porphyromonas gingivalis in serum and saliva and their association with rheumatoid arthritis and periodontitis. Data from two rheumatoid arthritis cohorts in Sweden Frontiers in Immunology, Vol. 14, Article 1183194 Continue to DOI

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