IDDM patients neither show humoral reactivities against endogenous retroviral envelope protein nor do they differ in retroviral mRNA expression from healthy relatives or normal individuals

Diabetes

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 215-218

  Badenhoop, Klaus ^a   Donner, Horst ^a   Neumann, Jeannette ^a   Herwig, Jürgen ^a   Kurth, Reinhard ^b   Usadel, Klaus Henning ^a   Tönjes, Ralf R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b Paul Ehrlich lnstitut   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVELOPE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ANTIBODY FORMATION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HUMANS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROVIRIDAE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 0032908808     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.48.1.215     Document Type: Article

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