Detection of antimitochondrial autoantibodies in immunofluorescent AMA-negative patients with primary biliary cirrhosis using recombinant autoantigens

Hepatology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 243-248

  Miyakawa, Hiroshi ^a   Tanaka, Atsushi ^b   Kikuchi, Kentaro ^a   Matsushita, Masanao ^a   Kitazawa, Eriko ^a   Kawaguchi, Naomi ^a   Fujikawa, Hirotoshi ^a   Gershwin, M Eric ^c  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADULT DISEASES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY; OXOGLUTARATE DEHYDROGENASE; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034927079     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.2001.26514     Document Type: Article

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