Dystrophin abnormality in a patient with polymyositis associated with primary biliary cirrhosis and myocardial injury

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 876-880

  Tsai, Wei Chao ^a   Matsumura, Kiichiro ^a   Sonoo, Masahiro ^a   Motoyoshi, Yasufumi ^a   Shiga, Jyunji ^a   Shimizu, Teruo ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

adrenocorticosteroid; arrhythmia; dystrophin; polymyositis; primary biliary cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; POLYMYOSITIS;

ARRHYTHMIA; DYSTROPHIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMYOSITIS;

EID: 0029824637     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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