Unstabilized DNA breaks in lymphocytes of patients with different subsets of systemic sclerosis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1108, Issue , 2007, Pages 240-248

  Majone, Franca ^a   Cozzi, Franco ^a   Tonello, Marta ^a   Olivieri, Silvia ^a   Montaldi, Anna ^b   Favaro, Maria ^a   Visentin, Serena ^a   Luisetto, Roberto ^a   Ruffatti, Amelia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anti centromere antibody; Anti RNA polymerase III antibody; Antitopoisomerase I antibody; Digoxigenin dUTP; Micronuclei; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE ANTIBODY; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA TOPOISOMERASE;

ADULT; AGED; CENTROMERE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PREVALENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

EID: 34948887166     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1422.026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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