Systemic Sclerosis in German Uranium Miners under Special Consideration of Autoantibody Subsets and HLA Class II Alleles

Respiration

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 368-375

  Baur, Xaver ^a   Peter Rihs, Hans ^a   Altmeyer, Peter ^b   Degens, Paul ^a   Conrad, Karsten ^c   Mehlhorn, Jurgen ^d   Webere, Karin ^e   Wiebe, Volker ^f  

^a INSTITUT DER RUHR UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM IPA   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^d ärztliche Gutachtergemeinschaft   (Germany)

^e Bergbau Berufsgenossenschaft   (Germany)

^f RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

HLA D; Irradiation; Quartz dust; Systemic sclerosis; Uranium miners

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRRADIATION; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URANIUM MINE;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HLA-D ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; URANIUM;

EID: 0029858687     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: 14230356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000196579     Document Type: Article

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