IgG Anti-ghrelin Immune Complexes Are Increased in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Under Biologic Therapy and Are Related to Clinical and Metabolic Markers
This study was supported by Instituto de Nutrición y Salud Kellogg's (INSK) by the funding program Apoyo a Proyectos de Investigación en Nutrición (APIN-2016) granted to ZR-C. The funding source had no involvement on the design nor any steps of the study.
Conflict of Interest Statement
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Biomédicas and Centro de Investigación en Biología Molecular de las Enfermedades Crónicas, for kindly providing the facilities for performing some of the experiments of the study.
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