Association of distinct clinical subsets with myositisspecific autoantibodies towards anti155/140kDa polypeptides, anti-140-kDa polypeptides, and antiaminoacyl tRNA synthetases in Japanese patients with dermatomyositis: A singlecentre, crosssectional study

Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 263-267

  Fujikawa, K ^a   Kawakami, A ^a   Kaji, K ^b   Fujimoto, M ^b   Kawashiri, S ^a   Iwamoto, N ^a   Aramaki, T ^a   Ichinose, K ^a   Tamai, M ^a   Kamachi, M ^a   Nakamura, H ^a   Ida, H ^a   Origuchi, T ^a   Ishimoto, H ^a   Mukae, H ^a   Kuwana, M ^c   Kohno, S ^a   Takehara, K ^b   Sato, S ^a   Eguchi, K ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

155 140 KDA POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBODY; AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA SYNTHETASE ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; CLINICALLY AMYOPATHIC DERMATOMYOSITIS 140 POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBODY; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; JAPANESE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES; AUTOANTIBODIES; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DERMATOMYOSITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDES; PROBABILITY; RNA, TRANSFER; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 70350637325     PISSN: 03009742     EISSN: 15027732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03009740802687455     Document Type: Article

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