Autoimmunity to the Nuclear Autoantigen DFS70 (LEDGF): What Exactly Are the Autoantibodies Trying to Tell Us?

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 684-688

  Ganapathy, Vidya ^a   Casiano, Carlos A ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; ANTIGEN DFS70; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN; CASPASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; LENS EPITHELIUM DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN P68; RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATOPY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CANCER; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; DERMATOMYOSITIS; EDITORIAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RNA PROCESSING; SCLERODERMA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS;

EID: 1542373697     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.20095     Document Type: Editorial

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