Chondrocyte of rheumatoid arthritis serve as a source of intra-articular acute-phase serum amyloid A protein

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 398, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 155-156

  Momohara, Shigeki ^a   Okamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Yamanaka, Hisashi ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; SERUM AMYLOID A; STROMELYSIN;

ADULT; AGED; CARTILAGE CELL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JAPANESE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHONDROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; NF-KAPPA B; SERUM AMYLOID A PROTEIN; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 54049139153     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2008.07.034     Document Type: Letter

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