Spontaneous occurrence of anti-fibrillin-1 autoantibodies in tight-skin mice

Autoimmunity

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 151-155

  Murai, Chihiro ^a   Saito, Shinichiro ^a   Kasturi, Kuppuswamy N ^a   Bona, Constantin A ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoantibodies; Fibrillin 1; Tight skin mouse

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; FIBRILLIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SCLERODERMA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0032433293     PISSN: 08916934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08916939808996283     Document Type: Article

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