Murine metal-induced systemic autoimmunity: Baseline and stimulated cytokine mRNA expression in genetically susceptible and resistant strains

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 157-164

  Haggqvist B ^a   Hultman, Per ^a,b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Cytokines; Mercury; Mice; mRNA

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CYTOKINE; FIBRILLARIN; FIBRILLARIN ANTIBODY; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; MERCURY; MESSENGER RNA; METAL; SILVER NITRATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOWN REGULATION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; IMMUNE COMPLEX DEPOSITION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AUTOIMMUNITY; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-13; INTERLEUKIN-15; INTERLEUKIN-2; INTERLEUKIN-4; KINETICS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MERCURY; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SILVER NITRATE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0034771216     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2001.01636.x     Document Type: Article

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