Expression of human endogenous retrovirus clone 4-1 may correlate with blood plasma concentration of anti-U1 RNP and anti-Sm nuclear antibodies

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 620-624

  Piotrowski, Piotr C ^a,b   Duriagin, Sergiusz ^c   Jagodzinski, Pawel P ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

^c POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antinuclear antibodies; Endogenous retroviruses; Lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA ANTIBODY; GAG PROTEIN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; PREDNISOLONE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN ANTIBODY; SCL 70 ANTIBODY; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRUS; RNA ISOLATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; AUTOANTIGENS; DNA, VIRAL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 27844472701     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-005-1123-8     Document Type: Article

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