Intrarenal cytokine gene expression in lupus nephritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 886-892

  Chan, Rebecca Wing Yan ^a   Lai, Fernand Mac Moune ^a   Li, Edmund Kwok Ming ^a   Tam, Lai Shan ^a   Chow, Kai Ming ^a   Lai, Ka Bik ^a   Li, Philip Kam Tao ^a   Szeto, Cheuk Chun ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; CYTOKINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOMERULUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY INTERSTITIUM; KIDNEY TUBULE; LEUKOCYTE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MICRODISSECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; CHEMOKINE CCL2; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GATA3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKINS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; KIDNEY TUBULES; LEUKOCYTES; LUPUS NEPHRITIS; MALE; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 34347227787     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2006.063123     Document Type: Article

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