Detection of anti-Ro/SSA and anti-La/SSB autoantibody-producing cells in salivary glands from patients with Sjogren's syndrome

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2238-2248

  Tengnér, Pia ^a,b,d   Halse, Anne Kristine ^b   Haga, Hans Jacob ^c   Jonsson, Roland ^b,c   Wahren Herlenius, Marie ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY PRODUCING CELL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVARY GLAND; SJOEGREN SYNDROME;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY-PRODUCING CELLS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; HUMANS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, SMALL CYTOPLASMIC; SALIVARY GLANDS; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME;

EID: 0032430377     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(199812)41:12<2238::AID-ART20>3.3.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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