Quantification of circulating endothelial cells in peripheral blood of systemic lupus erythematosus patients: A simple and reproducible method of assessing endothelial injury and repair

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1495-1499

  Elshal, Mohamed ^a   Abdelaziz, Abeer ^b   Abbas, Ayman ^c   Mahmoud, Khaled ^d   Fathy, Hanan ^b   Mongy, Shaimaa El ^b   El Basyuoni, Shereif ^b   Ahmed, Hamada ^b   McCoy, Philip ^e  

^a MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^e Flow Cytometry Core and Hematology Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

CD146; Flow cytometry; Systemic lupus erythaematosus

Indexed keywords

7 AMINODACTINOMYCIN; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CD146 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD146; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VASCULAR DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249109791     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn650     Document Type: Article

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