Variation in hsp gene expression and Hsp polymorphism: Do they contribute to differential disease susceptibility and stress tolerance?

Cell Stress and Chaperones

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 141-155

  Favatier, Florence ^a   Bornman, Liza ^b   Hightower, Lawrence E ^c   Günther, Eberhard ^d   Polla, Barbara S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOZAPINE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HLA ANTIGEN;

AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNITY; BEHCET DISEASE; CELIAC DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GRAVES DISEASE; HAPLOTYPE; HEAT SHOCK; HEAT TOLERANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0030755096     PISSN: 13558145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1379/1466-1268(1997)002<0141:VIHGEA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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