Anti-galectin-1 autoantibodies in human Trypanosoma cruzi infection: Differential expression of this β-galactoside-binding protein in cardiac Chagas' disease

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 266-273

  Giordanengo, L ^a   Gea, S ^a   Barbieri, G ^b   Rabinovich, G A ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b Centre of Chagas' Disease and Regional Pathology   (Argentina)

^c HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS JOSÉ DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Autoantibodies; Chagas' disease; Galectin 1; Heart; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; GALAPTIN; GALECTIN; GALECTIN 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PARASITE ANTIGEN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; GALECTIN 1; HEMAGGLUTININS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT; LECTINS; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 0034963054     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2001.01512.x     Document Type: Article

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