Expression of a wide range of fibrocartilage molecules at the entheses of the alar ligaments - Possible antigenic targets for rheumatoid arthritis?

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1420-1425

  Boszczyk, Alexandra A ^a   Boszczyk, Bronek M ^b   Putz, Reinhard ^b   Benjamin, Michael ^b   Milz, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alar ligament; Atlantoaxial rotation; Fibrocartilage; Immunohistochemistry; Rheumatoid arthritis; Upper cervical spine

Indexed keywords

AGGRECAN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; LINK PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CERVICAL SPINE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGAMENT; ODONTOID PROCESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; CARTILAGE; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; HEAD; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MALE; PROTEOGLYCANS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TORSION;

EID: 0038505603     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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