When the immune system goes on the attack. Thanks to advances in research, it may soon be easier to diagnose autoimmune diseases earlier, but therapy remains a tricky problem

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 757-760

  Brower, Vicki ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; CHEMOKINE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; CYTOKINE; ETANERCEPT; IBRITUMOMAB TIUXETAN; IDEC; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INFLIXIMAB; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NATALIZUMAB; NEUROVAX; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY; VISILIZUMAB;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG TARGETING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; REMISSION INDUCTION;

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EID: 4444268755     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400217     Document Type: Article

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