A role for leptin in rheumatic diseases?

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 913-915

  Palmer, G ^a   Gabay, C ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BODY MASS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; KETOGENIC DIET; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SHORT SURVEY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOIMMUNITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MODELS, ANIMAL; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TH1 CELLS;

EID: 0141650600     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.62.10.913     Document Type: Short Survey

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