Rheumatoid factor autoantibodies in health and disease

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 815, Issue , 1997, Pages 296-311

  Mageed, Rizgar A ^a   Børretzen, Marie ^b   Moves, Sasha P ^a   Thompson, Keith M ^b   Natvig, Jacob B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOMATIC MUTATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNOVITIS; SYNOVIUM;

EID: 0030752512     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb52071.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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