Cell death by apoptosis is a feature of the rheumatoid nodule

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-80

  Highton, John ^a   Hessian, P A ^b   Kean, A ^b   Chin, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; AUROTHIOMALATE; AZATHIOPRINE; DNA; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; DNA DETERMINATION; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; SYNOVIUM;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; RHEUMATOID NODULE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0037214107     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.62.1.77     Document Type: Article

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