Amyloids: Tombstones or triggers?

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 633-634

  Kisilevsky, Robert ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED GLYCATION END PRODUCT; AMYLOID A PROTEIN;

AMYLOIDOSIS; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SHORT SURVEY; SPLEEN;

AMYLOIDOSIS; ANIMALS; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); HEME OXYGENASE-1; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NF-KAPPA B; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SERUM AMYLOID A PROTEIN;

EID: 0034047248     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/76203     Document Type: Short Survey

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