Silica accelerated systemic autoimmune disease in lupus-prone New Zealand mixed mice

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 415-421

  Brown, J M ^a   Archer, A J ^a   Pfau, J C ^a   Holian, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune disease; New Zealand mixed mouse; Silica; Silicosis; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HISTONE ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; SILICON DIOXIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEREDITY; IMMUNE COMPLEX DEPOSITION; IMMUNE STATUS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED NZB; PROTEINURIA; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILICOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037340279     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2003.02094.x     Document Type: Article

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