The origin of mixed connective tissue disease: A stimulus for autoimmune disease research

Lupus

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1031-1032

  Sharp, Gordon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA ANTIBODY; HLA DR4 ANTIGEN; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN ANTIBODY; SM ANTIBODY; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TRYPSIN;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; IMMUNODIFFUSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE HEMAGGLUTINATION; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; SHEEP ERYTHROCYTE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; VASCULAR LESION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MICE; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE;

EID: 70349512005     PISSN: 09612033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961203309106766     Document Type: Article

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