C reactive protein: Protecting from lupus in familial Mediterranean fever

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 786-787

  Ozen, S ^a   Bakkaloglu, A ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; AMYLOID A PROTEIN; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PENTRAXIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CRP GENE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; INFLAMMATION; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RARE DISEASE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TROPICAL DISEASE; VASCULITIS;

C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 17644417519     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2004.027037     Document Type: Article

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