Serum antibody reactivity to human intracisternal A-type particle retrovirus proteins in systemic sclerosis patients

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 177-180

  La Placa, Michelangelo ^a,b   Bianchi, Tommaso ^a   Vitone, Francesca ^a   Muratori, Luigi ^a   Varotti, Claudio ^a   Gibellini, Davide ^a   Re, Maria Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Division of Dermatology   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROVIRUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; VIRUS PARTICLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 2442580169     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00015550410023301     Document Type: Article

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