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I would like to thank Prof, Mike Kemeny and Dr, Paul Macary, for all of their incessant supports. I would also like to thank our collaborator, Dr Ken Smith and his group at Cambridge University.

Table of Contents

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION....................................................................................1

CHAPTER 2 MATERIALS AND METHODS..........................................................34 CHAPTER 3 RESULT AND DISCUSSION..............................................................44

Table 1.1

Cytokine profiles in SLE patients..............................................................9

List of Figures

Fig 2.1

Separation of PBMC by Histopaque centrifugation.................................36

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