Antibodies to ab blood group antigens mimic anti-salivary duct autoantibodies in patients with limited sicca symptoms

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2382-2388

  Goldblatt, F ^a   Beroukas, D ^a   Gillis, D ^a   Cavill, D ^a   Bradwell, A ^a   Rischmueller, M ^a   Gordon, T P ^a  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anti salivary duct autoantibodies; Blood group antigens; Confocal microscopy; Sjogren's syndrome

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; BLOOD GROUP ABH ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD GROUP AB; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; ERYTHROCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PAROTID GLAND; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMAL; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMAN; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGE; PAROTID GLAND; SALIVARY DUCTS; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0033790988     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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