Ageing, autoimmunity and arthritis An introduction.docVIP

Available online /content/5/5/223 Review Ageing, autoimmunity and arthritis An introduction Andrew P Cope The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK Correspondence: Andrew P Cope (e-mail: andrew.cope@imperial.ac.uk) Published: 8 Aug 2003 Arthritis Res Ther 2003, 5:223-224 (DOI 10.1186/ar992) ? 2003 BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1478-6354; Online ISSN 1478-6362) As populations grow, greater effort is made to understand the political and economic impact of ageing. Understand- ing the pathophysiology of this degenerative process