Pannocytes: Distinctive cells found in rheumatoid arthritis articular cartilage erosions

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1125-1138

  Zvaifler, Nathan J ^a,d   Tsai, Van ^b   Alsalameh, Saifeddin ^c   Von Kempis, Johannes ^a   Firestein, Gary S ^a   Lotz, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b CYTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT DESTRUCTION; MESENCHYME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIOCYTE;

ANTIGENS, SURFACE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGENASES; CYTOPLASM; FIBROBLASTS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RECEPTORS, CYTOKINE; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 0031044221     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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