Circulating antibodies against α-enolase in patients with primary membranous nephropathy (MN)

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 445-450

  Wakui, Hideki ^a   Imai, H ^a   Komatsuda, A ^a   Miura, A B ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enolase; Antibodies; IgG subclass; Membranous nephropathy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ENOLASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SWINE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AUTOANTIBODIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SWINE;

EID: 0032695402     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1999.01080.x     Document Type: Article

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