Gamma interferon and interleukin-10 gene expression in synovial tissues from patients with early stages of Chlamydia-associated arthritis and undifferentiated oligoarthritis and from healthy volunteers

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2682-2686

  Kotake, Shigeru ^a,e   Schumacher Jr , H Ralph ^a,b   Arayssi, Thurayya K ^a   Gérard, Herve C ^d   Branigan, Patrick J ^c   Hudson, Alan P ^d   Yarboro, Cheryl H ^a   Klippel, John H ^a   Wilder, Ronald L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CD3 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN P40; RNA 16S; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNOVIUM;

EID: 0032948819     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.5.2682-2686.1999     Document Type: Article

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