Increased serum levels of TGFβ1 in children with localized scleroderma

Pediatric Rheumatology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Uziel, Yosef ^a   Feldman, Brian M ^b,c   Krafchik, Bernice R ^b   Laxer, Ronald M ^b   Yeung, Rae S M ^b,d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY REGIONS; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FACE; HUMAN; LIMB; LINEAR SCLERODERMA; LOCALIZED SCLERODERMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

EID: 45249124975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15460096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1546-0096-5-22     Document Type: Article

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