Significant increase in IgG4+ plasma cells in gastric biopsy specimens from patients with pernicious anaemia

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 999-1001

  Bedeir, Ahmed S ^a   Lash, Richard H ^a   Lash, Jonathan G ^a   Ray, Mukunda B ^a  

^a CARIS LIFE SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SYNDECAN 1;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATROPHIC GASTRITIS; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL SURFACE; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL CHROMAGEN STAINING; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD CHRONIC INACTIVE GASTRITIS; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH MUCOSA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, PERNICIOUS; BIOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTRITIS; GASTRITIS, ATROPHIC; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA CELLS; SYNDECAN-1;

EID: 78149362259     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2010.081232     Document Type: Article

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