Prevalence of organ-specific and non organ-specific autoantibodies in healthy centenarians

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 94, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 183-190

  Candore, Giuseppina ^c   Di Lorenzo, Gabriele ^a   Mansueto, Pasquale ^a   Melluso, Marcello ^a   Fradà, Giovanni ^a   Li Vecchi, Maurizio ^b   Pellitteri, Maria Esposito ^a   Drago, Agata ^a   Di Salvo, Angelo ^a   Caruso, Calogero ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Ist Med Int Malat C   (Italy)

^c Servizio di Tipizzazione Tissutale   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autoantibodies; Centenarians; Elderly; Natural antibodies

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GALACTOSYL ANTIBODY; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; DNA ANTIBODY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PARIETAL CELL ANTIBODY; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY TITER; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; AUTOANTIBODIES; CARDIOLIPINS; DNA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; THYROGLOBULIN;

EID: 0030949229     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-6374(96)01845-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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