Constitutive production of interleukin‐6 and immunologic features in cardiac myxomas

Arthritis & Rheumatism

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 398-402

  Jourdan, Michel ^a,b   Bataille, Régis ^a,b   Seguin, Jacques ^a,b   Zhang, Xue Guang ^a,b   Chaptal, Paul André ^a,b   Klein, Bernard ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ELOI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CASE REPORT; CELL CULTURE; HEART MYXOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BONE MARROW DISEASES; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; INTERLEUKIN-6; MYXOMA; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0025275703     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.1780330313     Document Type: Article

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