Characterization of the T-cell epitope that causes anti-GBM glomerulonephritis

Kidney International

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1061-1070

  Robertson, Julie ^b   Wu, Jean ^b   Arends, Jon ^b   Glass II, William ^b   Southwood, Scott ^b   Sette, Alessandro ^b   Lou, Ya Huan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anti GBM disease; Autoimmunity; Collagen IV 3; MHC class II; Rat; T epitope

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE ANTIBODY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-GLOMERULAR BASEMENT MEMBRANE DISEASE; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY;

EID: 30744445857     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1755.2005.00498.x     Document Type: Article

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