A multicenter trial of recombinant human interferon gamma in patients with systemic sclerosis: Effects on cutaneous fibrosis and interleukin 2 receptor levels

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 654-658

  Polisson, Richard P ^a   Gilkeson, Gary S ^b   Pyun, Elise H ^b   Pisetsky, David S ^b   Smith, Edwin A ^b   Simon, Lee S ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Interferon gamma; Interleukin 2 receptor; Progressive systemic sclerosis; Raynaud's phenomenon; Scleroderma

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FIBROSIS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INTERFERON-GAMMA, RECOMBINANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PILOT PROJECTS; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; REMISSION INDUCTION; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029878115     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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