Serum from normal elderly individuals contains anti-basement membrane zone antibodies

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1201-1205

  Hachisuka, Hiroshi ^a,b   Kurose, Koichiro ^a   Karashima, Tadashi ^a   Mori, Osamu ^a   Maeyama, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT MEMBRANE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDERMIS; ESOPHAGUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; PEMPHIGOID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PEMPHIGOID, BULLOUS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0029903976     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.132.10.1201     Document Type: Article

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