Blood fetal microchimerism in primary biliary cirrhosis

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 418-422

  Invernizzi, P ^a,b   De Andreis, C ^a   Sirchia, S M ^a   Battezzati, P M ^a   Zuin, M ^a   Rossella, F ^a   Perego, F ^a   Bignotto, M ^a   Simoni, G ^a   Podda, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b San Paolo School of Medicine   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Chronic cholestasis; Liver disease; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BLOOD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHIMERA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

EID: 0034531143     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2000.01381.x     Document Type: Article

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