Commercial blot assays in the diagnosis of systemic rheumatic diseases

Autoimmunity Reviews

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 645-649

  Ghirardello, Anna ^a   Bendo, Raffaele ^a   Rampudda, Maria Elisa ^a   Bassi, Nicola ^a   Zampieri, Sandra ^a   Doria, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Commercial assays; Immunoblotting; Line blot assay

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN;

AUTOIMMUNITY; BLOTTING; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MYOSITIS; PROTEIN BLOTTING; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SCLERODERMA; VALIDATION STUDY;

AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MYOSITIS; RHEUMATIC DISEASES;

EID: 67349093014     PISSN: 15689972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2009.02.012     Document Type: Review

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