Microchimeric cells: Guardians or actors of immunity in scleroderma?

Rheumatology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 382-383

  Lambert, Nathalie C ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; DENDRITIC CELL; EDITORIAL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFLAMMATION; KERATINOCYTE; LANGERHANS CELL; LOCALIZED SCLERODERMA; MICROCHIMERISM; MORPHEA; PATHOGENESIS; PITYRIASIS LICHENOIDES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN BIOPSY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

EID: 33847403546     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kel370     Document Type: Editorial

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