Proliferative response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells and levels of antibody to recombinant protein from Propionibacterium acnes DNA expression library in Japanese patients with sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 256-265

  Ebe, Y ^a   Ikushima, S ^a   Yamaguchi, T ^a   Kohno, K ^a   Azuma, A ^a   Sato, K ^a   Ishige, I ^a   Usui, Y ^a   Takemura, T ^a   Eishi, Y ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibody level; Lymphoproliferative response; Propionibacterium acnes; Recombinant protein; Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN P35; RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM ACNES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SARCOIDOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MONOCYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TISSUE CULTURE;

EID: 0033770698     PISSN: 11240490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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