Salivary Anti-hsp65 Antibodies as a Diagnostic Marker for Gingivitis and a Possible Link to Atherosclerosis

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 246-250

  Schett, Georg ^a,b   Metzler, Bernhard ^a,b   Kleindienst, Roman ^c   Moschèn, Ivano ^b   Hattmannsdorfer, Roswitha ^b   Wolf, Hugo ^b   Ottenhoff, Tom ^d   Xu, Qingbo ^a   Wick, Georg ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Atherosclerosis; Autoimmunity; Epitope specificity; Gingivitis; Heat shock protein; Stress protein

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CROSS REACTING ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BACTERIAL FLORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GINGIVITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA LEVEL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030752564     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: 14230097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000237675     Document Type: Article

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