Oligoclonal B lymphocyte expansion in the synovium of a patient with Behçet's disease

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1707-1712

  Suh, Chang Hee ^a   Park, Yong Beom ^a   Song, Jungsik ^a   Lee, Chan Hee ^a   Lee, Soo Kon ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNOVIUM;

ADULT; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; BEHCET SYNDROME; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGOCLONAL BANDS; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 0034937634     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200107)44:7<1707::AID-ART295>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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