Distinctive immune response patterns of human and murine autoimmune sera to U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein C protein

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 97, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2619-2626

  Satoh, Minoru ^a   Langdon, Jenifer J ^a   Hamilton, Kimberly J ^a   Richards, Hanno B ^a   Panka, David ^b   Eisenberg, Robert A ^c   Reeves, Westley H ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

anti nRNP antibodies; anti Sm antibodies; antinuclear antibodies; MRL lpr mice; systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; ANTISERUM; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PRISTANE; PROTEIN C; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

EID: 0029994013     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI118711     Document Type: Article

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