CI- regulates cryglobulin structure: A new hypothesis for the physiopathological mechanism of temperature non-dependent cryoprecipitation

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 614-620

  Di Stasio, Enrico ^a   Bizzarri, Patrizia ^b   Casato, Milvia ^c   Galtieri, Antonio ^d   Fiorilli, Massimo ^c   Pucillo, Leopoldo Paolo ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anion regulation; Cryoglobulins; Light scattering; Protein unfolding; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; CRYOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN SUBCLASS; ANION; GUANIDINE;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN AGGREGATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; LOW TEMPERATURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RISK FACTOR; BLOOD; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY; DRUG EFFECT; HEPATITIS C; METHODOLOGY; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIONS; CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; CHLORIDES; COMPLEMENT PATHWAY, ALTERNATIVE; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; CRYOGLOBULINS; GUANIDINE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PRECIPITATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 3242798298     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2004.106     Document Type: Article

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