Detection of antibodies to a recombinant gag protein derived from human endogenous retrovirus clone 4-1 in autoimmune diseases

Viral Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 137-147

  Hishikawa, T ^a,b   Ogasawara, H ^a   Kaneko, H ^a   Shirasawa, T ^b   Matsuura, Y ^c   Sekigawa, I ^d   Takasaki, Y ^a   Hashimoto, H ^a   Hirose, S ^d   Handa, S ^b   Nagasawa, R ^b   Maruyama, N ^b  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^d JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SHIZUOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GAG PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BACULOVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOGENOUS VIRUS; ETIOLOGY; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; RETROVIRUS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

FELIDAE; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; MURINAE; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0030702081     PISSN: 08828245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vim.1997.10.137     Document Type: Article

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