Evaluation of anti-ribosomal P protein immunoassay in Japanese patients with connective tissue diseases: Comparison with an indirect immunofluorescence assay

Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 460-463

  Muro, Y ^a   Sugiura, K ^a   Morita, Y ^a   Tomita, Y ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; GLYCINE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SCREENING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RIBOSOME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERUM; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; STAINING; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70450189021     PISSN: 03009742     EISSN: 15027732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03009740903008767     Document Type: Article

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