Anti-mitochondrial antibody immunofluorescent titres correlate with the number and intensity of immunoblot-detected mitochondrial bands in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 380, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 118-121

  Rigopoulou, Eirini I ^a   Bogdanos, Dimitrios Petrou ^b   Liaskos, Christos ^a,b,c   Koutsoumpas, Andreas ^b   Baum, Harold ^d   Vergani, Diego ^b   Dalekos, George N ^a  

^a Academic Liver Unit   (Greece)

^b KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND REHABILITATION   (Greece)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoantibody; Autoimmune disease; Autoimmunity; Cholestasis; Liver disease

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN; MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER MITOCHONDRION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY;

AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIA, LIVER;

EID: 34047168641     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2007.01.023     Document Type: Article

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