Role of non-protein amino acid l-canavanine in autoimmunity

Autoimmunity Reviews

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 429-435

  Akaogi, Jun ^a   Barker, Tolga ^a   Kuroda, Yoshiki ^a   Nacionales, Dina C ^a   Yamasaki, Yoshioki ^a   Stevens, Bruce R ^b   Reeves, Westley H ^a   Satoh, Minoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antinuclear antibodies; Arginine; Autoantibodies; l canavanine; Lupus

Indexed keywords

CANAVANINE; PROTEASOME; PROTEINASE;

ALFALFA; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; AUTOIMMUNITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; INFLAMMATION; LUPUS LIKE SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PANCYTOPENIA; PHAGOCYTOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPLENOMEGALY;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ARGININE; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNITY; CANAVANINE; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C;

EID: 33746486791     PISSN: 15689972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2005.12.004     Document Type: Review

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