Cytokines and myelin antibodies in Crow-Fukase syndrome

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1620-1622

  Saida, Kyoko ^a   Ohta, Mitsuhiro ^a   Kawakami, Hideshi ^b   Saida, Takahiko ^a  

^a UTANO NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

demyelinating antibodies; interleukin 6; neuropathy; poems syndrome

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROW FUKASE SYNDROME; HUMAN; PARAPROTEINEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ANTIBODIES; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN-6; MYELIN SHEATH; POEMS SYNDROME; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 0029826039     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199612)19:12<1620::AID-MUS16>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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