Behçet's disease and hereditary periodic fever syndromes: Casual association or causal relationship?

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 4 SUPPL 38, 2005, Pages

  Espinosa, Gerard ^a   Arostegui, Juan I ^a   Plaza, Susana ^a   Rius, Josefa ^a   Cervera, Ricard ^a   Yagüe, Jordi ^a   Font, Josep ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beh et's disease; FMF; Hereditary periodic fever syndromes; TRAPS

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; MARENOSTRIN; RECOMBINANT HUMAN TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 1; RECOMBINANT HUMAN TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-BINDING PROTEIN-1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR DECOY RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXON; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENITAL ULCER; HEREDITARY PERIODIC FEVER; HETEROZYGOSITY; INTRON; MEFV GENE; MOUTH ULCER; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SPANIARD; TNFRSF1A GENE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED PERIODIC SYNDROME; UVEITIS;

BEHCET SYNDROME; COHORT STUDIES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR, TYPE I; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR DECOY RECEPTORS;

EID: 33644807015     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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