Human retrovirus-5 proviral DNA is rarely detected in salivary gland biopsy tissues from patients with Sjogren's syndrome

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2016-2021

  Rigby, Shirley P ^a   Griffiths, David J ^b   Weiss, Robin A ^b   Venables, Patrick J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS; SALIVARY GLAND; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; VIRUS DETECTION;

AMINO ACIDS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, VIRAL; GENES, POL; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROVIRUSES; RETROVIRIDAE; SALIVARY GLANDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND;

EID: 0030834790     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.1780401114     Document Type: Article

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