Increased circulating serum amyloid A protein derivatives in rheumatoid arthritis patients with secondary amyloidosis

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 371-375

  Migita, Kiyoshi ^a   Eguchi, Katsumi ^a   Tsukada, Toshiaki ^a   Kawabe, Yojiro ^a   Takashima, Hiroyuki ^a   Mine, Masanobu ^b   Aoyagi, Takahiko ^c   Ichinose, Yasufumi ^a   Nagataki, Shigenobu ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Isahaya Health Insurance Hospital   (Japan)

^c Ureshino Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; SERUM AMYLOID A;

ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SERUM AMYLOID A PROTEIN;

EID: 0029812540     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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