Mechanisms of disease: Pernicious anemia

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 1441-1448

  Toh, Ban Hock ^a   Van Driel, Ian R ^a   Gleeson, Paul A ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPHIC GASTRITIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DIAGNOSIS; ETIOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MALABSORPTION; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOMACH BIOPSY; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH MUCOSA; STOMACH PARIETAL CELL;

AUTOANTIBODY; CYANOCOBALAMIN; HYDROGEN POTASSIUM ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ANEMIA, PERNICIOUS; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTRITIS, ATROPHIC; H(+)-K(+)-EXCHANGING ATPASE; HUMANS; MICE; PARIETAL CELLS, GASTRIC; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0031566688     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199711133372007     Document Type: Review

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