Simultaneous, clonally identical T cell expansion in tonsil and synovium in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis and chronic tonsillitis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2483-2488

  Kawano, Mitsuhiro ^a,b   Okada, Kanae ^b   Muramoto, Hiroaki ^a   Morishita, Hajime ^a   Omura, Takayo ^a   Inoue, Ryo ^b   Kitajima, Susumu ^b   Katano, Kenichi ^b   Koni, Ichiro ^b   Mabuchi, Hiroshi ^b   Yachie, Akihiro ^b  

^a Kanazawa Social Insurance Hospital   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCILLAMINE; CORTICOSTEROID; METHOTREXATE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTHROCENTESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC TONSILLITIS; CLONAL VARIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVECTOMY; SYNOVIUM; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TONSILLECTOMY;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BASE SEQUENCE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLONE CELLS; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TONSIL; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS;

EID: 0141788391     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.11212     Document Type: Article

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