Retrovirus infection as a trigger for primary biliary cirrhosis?

Lancet

Volumn 363, Issue 9405, 2004, Pages 260-261

  Poupon, Raoul ^a   Poupon, Renée Eugénie ^b  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BILE DUCT DISEASE; CELL; CHOLANGIOCYTE; CROSS REACTION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTO ONCOGENE; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 0942289889     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)15418-9     Document Type: Note

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