Anti-U5 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP) antibodies: A rare anti-U snRNP specificity

Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-47

  Okano, Yutaka ^a   Targoff, Ira N ^b   Oddis, Chester V ^a   Fujii, Takao ^c   Kuwana, Masataka ^c   Tsuzaka, Kensei ^c   Hirakata, Michito ^c   Mimori, Tsuneyo ^c   Craft, Joe ^d   Medsger Jr , Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELA CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

EID: 0030272624     PISSN: 00901229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clin.1996.0155     Document Type: Article

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