Autoimmunity in ulcerative colitis (UC): A predominant colonic mucosal B cell response against human tropomyosin isoform 5

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 466-471

  Onuma, E K ^a   Amenta, P S ^a   Ramaswamy, K ^a   Lin, J J C ^a,b   Das, K M ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoantibody; Inflammatory bowel disease; Tropomyosin; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; TROPOMYOSIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CROHN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOASSAY; LAMINA PROPRIA; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLON; EPITOPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TROPOMYOSIN;

EID: 0033851491     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2000.01330.x     Document Type: Article

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