Microchimerism in Japanese patients with systemic sclerosis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1226-1228

  Ichikawa, Naomi ^a   Kotake, Shigeru ^a   Hakoda, Masayuki ^a   Kamatani, Naoyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CELL ANTIBODY; DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; ENZYME ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MICROCHIMERISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FIBROSIS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

AUTOANTIBODIES; CENTROMERE; CHIMERA; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0035040997     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200105)44:5<1226::AID-ANR208>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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