Macrophage migration inhibitory factor and its genetic association with arthritis: A work in progress

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 343-344

  Radstake, Timothy R D J ^b   Bucala, Richard ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR;

ALLELE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION-INHIBITORY FACTORS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 35349024368     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-007-0054-6     Document Type: Note

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