Anti-Tissue Transglutaminase Antibodies in Arthritic Patients: A Disease-specific Finding?

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2091-2094

  Picarelli, Antonio ^a   Di Tola, Marco ^a   Sabbatella, Luigi ^a   Vetrano, Stefania ^a   Anania, Maria Cristina ^a   Spadaro, Antonio ^a   Sorgi, Maria Laura ^a   Taccari, Egisto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; METHOTREXATE; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELIAC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KNEE ARTHRITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS; AUTOANTIBODIES; CELIAC DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSGLUTAMINASES;

EID: 0344945647     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2003.023234     Document Type: Article

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