High incidence of antibodies to lens proteins in sera from patients with uveitis

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 683-688

  Deshka, Doycheva ^a   Beate, Preuss ^b   Reinhild, Klein ^b   Manfred, Zierhut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crystallins; Lens proteins; Uveitis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; AUTOANTIBODY; BETA CRYSTALLIN; LENS PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CILIARY BODY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPISCLERITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IRIDOCYCLITIS; LENS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA VASCULITIS; SCLERITIS; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; UVEITIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLINS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; BETA-CRYSTALLINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CRYSTALLINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SCLERITIS; UVEITIS;

EID: 34250775134     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-006-0407-2     Document Type: Article

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