Antibodies in the sera of acute rheumatic fever patients bind to human cardiac tropomyosin

Journal of Autoimmunity

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-106

  Khanna, Ashwani K ^a   Nomura, Yuchi ^a   Fischetti, Vincent A ^a   Zabriskie, John B ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ARF sera; heart reactive antibodies; human cardiac tropomyosin; sarcolemmal sheath antigen

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; HEART ANTIBODY; TROPOMYOSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SARCOLEMMA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 0031081312     PISSN: 08968411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jaut.1996.0107     Document Type: Article

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