A role for granulocyte and monocyte apheresis in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

Therapeutic Apheresis

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 134-141

  Kashiwagi, Nobuhito ^a   Hirata, Ichirou ^a   Kasukawa, Reiji ^b  

^a JAPAN IMMUNORESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

G 1 column; Granulocyte and monocyte apheresis; Immunomodulation; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; PROTEINASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADULT; APHERESIS; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCYTE; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031835846     PISSN: 10916660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.1998.tb00091.x     Document Type: Article

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