Expression of the familial Mediterranean fever gene and activity of the C5a inhibitor in human primary fibroblast cultures

Blood

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 727-731

  Matzner, Yaacov ^a   Abedat, Suzan ^a   Shapiro, Eli ^a   Eisenberg, Shlomit ^a   Bar Gil Shitrit, Ariela ^a   Stepensky, Polina ^a   Calco, Sima ^a   Azar, Yehudit ^a   Urieli Shoval, Simcha ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C5A; COMPLEMENT INHIBITOR; INTERLEUKIN 8;

ARTICLE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOREGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034662176     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v96.2.727.014k14_727_731     Document Type: Article

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