Sugars and immune complex formation in IgA nephropathy

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 612-614

  Barratt, Jonathan ^a   Eitner, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; GALACTOSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; SUGAR; CARBOHYDRATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL ISOLATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; IN VITRO STUDY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY; GLOMERULUS; IMMUNOLOGY; NOTE;

ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; CARBOHYDRATES; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS;

EID: 70350502798     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2009.165     Document Type: Short Survey

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