Selective accumulation of related CD4+ T cell clones in the synovial fluid of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 4428-4436

  Striebich, Christopher C ^a,c   Falta, Michael T ^a   Wang, Yi ^a,d   Bill, Jerry ^b   Kotzin, Brian L ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b GILEAD SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d ALEXION PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HELPER CELL; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INFLAMMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORBIDITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID LEVEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BASE SEQUENCE; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONE CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 0032531979     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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