Selective expression of MHC class I in the affected muscle of a patient with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 873-876

  Gono, T ^a   Katsumata, Y ^a   Kawaguchi, Y ^a   Soejima, M ^a   Wakasugi, D ^a   Miyawaki, M ^a   Tsukahara, S ^a   Yamanaka, H ^a   Hara, M ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dropped head syndrome; Idiopathic inflammatory myopathy; Major histocompatibility complex class I

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL INVASION; DROPPED HEAD SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE NECROSIS; MUSCLE REGENERATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOSITIS; NECK MUSCLE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLENIUS CAPITIS MUSCLE; T LYMPHOCYTE; UPREGULATION;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MYOSITIS; NECK MUSCLES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 67349263066     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-009-1172-5     Document Type: Article

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