Type II collagen is a target antigen of clonally expanded T cells in the synovium of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 446-450

  Sekine, Taichi ^a,b   Kato, Tomohiro ^a   Masuko Hongo, Kayo ^a   Nakamura, Hiroshi ^a,c   Yoshino, Shin Ichi ^c   Nishioka, Kusuki ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuhiko ^a,d  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b LSI MEDIENCE CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 2; NUCLEOTIDE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL CLONING; CELL CULTURE; CELL STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIUM; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0033058447     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.58.7.446     Document Type: Article

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