Occupational exposures and autoimmune diseases

International Immunopharmacology

Volumn 2, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 303-313

  Cooper, Glinda S ^a   Miller, Frederick W ^a   Germolec, Dori R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune diseases; Crystalline silica; Hexachlorobenzene; Mercury; Pesticides; Solvents; Trichloroethylene; Ultraviolet radiation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; AUTOANTIBODY; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CYTOKINE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 1; LAMININ; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; PAINT; PESTICIDE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOLVENT; THINNER; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROTROPIN; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VINYL CHLORIDE; XYLENE;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; SCLERODERMA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TH1 CELL;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 0036147413     PISSN: 15675769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-5769(01)00181-3     Document Type: Review

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