Abstract:An increased concentration of extracellular cell free DNA (cfDNA) is a distinctive characteristic of pathologies that mainly occur in acute inflammation (myocardial infarction, sepsis, stroke, trauma). The increase of cfDNA in chronic inflammatory processes, oncological, autoimmune diseases is less significant and is mainly due to aberrant cell death processes. One of such diseases is systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). It has recently been shown that, in addition to increased cfDNA concentration, the degree o… Show more
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