The relationship of ASE-1 and NOR-90 in autoimmune sera

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2126-2130

  Whitehead, Clark M ^a   Fritzler, Marvin J ^a   Rattner, Jerome B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ASE 1; hUBF; NOR 90

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CHROMOSOME NOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; COHORT STUDIES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POL1 TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION COMPLEX PROTEINS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031761725     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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