have observed that patients with SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus), have undetectable
levels of urinary 8OHDG by HPLC. Further analysis by GC‐MS confirmed that levels of
8OHDG in SLE urine were 103‐fold lower than in an age‐and sex‐matched control group.
Experiments utilising cultures of SLE and normal lymphocytes exposed to H2O2 confirmed
the impaired ability of SLE lymphocytes to repair 8OHDG. We subsequently observed in SLE …