Clonal T cells in the blood of patients with systemic sclerosis

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 88-89

  Marie, Isabelle ^a   Cordel, Nadège ^b   Lenormand, Bernard ^b   Hellot, Marie France ^b   Levesque, Hervé ^a   Courtois, Hubert ^a   Joly, Pascal ^b  

^a Dept de Médecine Interne Ctr Hosp Univ Rouen Boisguillaume   (France)

^b ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLONE CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERODERMA, DIFFUSE; SCLERODERMA, LIMITED; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 12444307455     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.141.1.88     Document Type: Article

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