Serum complexes of immunoglobulin A-α1 proteinase inhibitor in rheumatoid arthritis: Association with current cigarette smoking and disease activity

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 387-391

  Hutchinson, David ^a   O'Leary, Claire ^a   Nixon, Nicola B ^a   Mattey, Derek L ^a  

^a Staffordshire Rheumatology Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IgA 1PI; Rheumatoid arthritis; Rheumatoid factor; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA 1-ANTITRYPSIN; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; SMOKING;

EID: 0036559069     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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