Unusually high frequency of autoantibodies to PL-7 associated with milder muscle disease in Japanese patients with polymyositis/dermatomyositis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2004-2009

  Yamasaki, Yoshioki ^a   Yamada, Hidehiro ^b   Nozaki, Toshiko ^b   Akaogi, Jun ^b   Nichols, Cody ^a   Lyons, Robert ^a   Loy, Anthony Chin ^a   Chan, Edward K L ^a   Reeves, Westley H ^a   Satoh, Minoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; AUTOANTIBODY; MUSCLE ENZYME;

ADULT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DERMATOMYOSITIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; JAPAN; MALE; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

ADULT; ALANINE-TRNA LIGASE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUTOANTIBODIES; DERMATOMYOSITIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GLYCINE-TRNA LIGASE; HISTIDINE-TRNA LIGASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ISOLEUCINE-TRNA LIGASE; JAPAN; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DISEASES; POLYMYOSITIS; THREONINE-TRNA LIGASE;

EID: 33745020875     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.21883     Document Type: Article

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