Unusual Suspects in Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

Hepatology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-41

  Vergani, Diego ^a,b   Bogdanos, Dimitrios Petrou ^a   Baum, Harold ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; T LYMPHOCYTE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY;

EID: 1442355473     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.20028     Document Type: Editorial

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