Do tissue levels of autoantigenic aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase predict clinical disease?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1124-1127

  Kron, Michael A ^a   Petridis, Michael ^a   Haertlein, Michael ^b   Libranda Ramirez, Bernadette ^c   Scaffidi, Linda E ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA   (Philippines)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; AUTOANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HEART; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LIVER; LUNG; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PANCREAS; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PANCREAS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 26444447921     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.06.016     Document Type: Article

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