Hepatitis C virus (HCV) in lymphocyte subsets and in B lymphocytes expressing rheumatoid factor cross-reacting idiotype in type II mixed cryoglobulinaemia

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 400-403

  Fornasieri, A ^a   Bernasconi, P ^a   Ribero, M L ^b   Sinico, R A ^a   Fasola, M ^b   Zhou, J ^a   Portera, G ^b   Tagger, A ^b   Gibelli, A ^a   D'Amico, G ^a  

^a SAN CARLO BORROMEO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cross reacting idiotypes; Cryoglobulinaemia; Hepatitis C virus; Lymphocyte subsets; Rheumatoid factor

Indexed keywords

RHEUMATOID FACTOR; RHEUMATOID FACTOR IGMK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; CRYOPRECIPITATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; AUTOANTIGENS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CROSS REACTIONS; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; CRYOGLOBULINS; FEMALE; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; RNA, VIRAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0034528136     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2000.01396.x     Document Type: Article

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