Relationship between serum levels of TGF-β1 and clinical parameters in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and Sjgren's syndrome secondary to rheumatoid arthritis

Autoimmunity

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 356-358

  Mieliauskaite, Diana ^a   Venalis, Paulius ^a,b   Dumalakiene, Irena ^a   Venalis, Algirdas ^a   Distler, Jörg ^b  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

RA; SS; TGF 1

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; JOINT INJURY; LACRIMAL GLAND; MALE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOLOGY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SALIVARY GLAND; SCORING SYSTEM; SJOEGREN SYNDROME;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 70749122040     PISSN: 08916934     EISSN: 1607842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08916930902831977     Document Type: Article

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