Circulating nucleosomes due to a defective clearance of dying cells: Consequences for systemic lupus erythematosus

Autoimmunity

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 311-314

  Erbacher, Annika I M ^a   Rönnefarth, Viktoria M ^a   Decker, Patrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID P COMPONENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FC RECEPTOR; PENTRAXIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURFACE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DNA DEGRADATION; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTE; PROTEIN BINDING; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; CELL DEATH; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; NUCLEOSOMES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 34249780122     PISSN: 08916934     EISSN: 1607842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08916930701356358     Document Type: Article

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