Quantification of fetal microchimeric cells in clinically affected and unaffected skin of patients with systemic sclerosis

Rheumatology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 965-968

  Sawaya, H H B ^a   Jimenez, S A ^a   Artlett, Carol M ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affected skin; Diffuse; Microchimerism; Systemic sclerosis; Unaffected skin

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL TRANSPORT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FETUS CELL; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; MICROCHIMERISM; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN FIBROSIS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; AGED; CHIMERA; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SKIN; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

AGED; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SKIN;

EID: 4243070879     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keh211     Document Type: Article

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