Clinical association of serum interleukin-17 levels in systemic sclerosis: Is systemic sclerosis a Th17 disease?

Journal of Dermatological Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 240-242

  Murata, Maki ^a   Fujimoto, Manabu ^a   Matsushita, Takashi ^a   Hamaguchi, Yasuhito ^a   Hasegawa, Minoru ^a   Takehara, Kazuhiko ^a   Komura, Kazuhiro ^b   Sato, Shinichi ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

IL 17; Systemic sclerosis; TGF ; Th17

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 17;

ADULT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THORAX;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-17; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 42649134787     PISSN: 09231811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdermsci.2008.01.001     Document Type: Letter

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