Genetics of autoimmune neuroinflammation

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 643-649

  Olsson, Tomas ^a   Jagodic, Maja ^a   Piehl, Fredrik ^a   Wallström, Erik ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PROTEIN KINASE C ALPHA;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL GENETICS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; ENCEPHALITIS; EXPERIMENTATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; INTROSPECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RODENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TARGET ORGAN; TISSUE REACTION;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 33750967383     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2006.08.001     Document Type: Review

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