Sarcoidosis news: Immunologic frontiers for new immunosuppressive strategies

Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 199-204

  Agostini, Carlo ^a   Costabel, Ulrich ^b   Semenzato, Gianpietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b RUHRLANDKLINIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG EFFECT; EPITHELIOID CELL; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LUNG FIBROSIS; MESENCHYME CELL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; TISSUE INJURY;

EID: 0031688492     PISSN: 00901229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clin.1998.4544     Document Type: Conference Paper

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