Endothelial/lymphocyte activation leads to prominent CD4+ T cell infiltration in the gastric mucosa of patients with systemic sclerosis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2866-2873

  Manetti, Mirko ^a,b,c,d   Neumann, Elena ^b,c   Müller, Adelheid ^e   Schmeiser, Tim ^b,c   Saar, Petra ^b,c   Milia, Anna Franca ^a,d   Endlicher, Esther ^e   Roeb, Elke ^b   Messerini, Luca ^a   Matucci Cerinic, Marco ^a,d   Ibba Manneschi, Lidia ^a   Müller Ladner, Ulf ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

^d Istituto Toscano Tumori   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA4 INTEGRIN; CD14 ANTIGEN; CD20 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD68 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 1; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL AGGREGATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MONOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH MUCOSA; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 52049124988     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.23806     Document Type: Article

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