Prevalence of collagen VII-specific autoantibodies in patients with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases

BMC Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Licarete, Emilia ^a,b   Ganz, Susanne ^a   Recknagel, Martin J ^a   Di Zenzo, Giovanni ^c   Hashimoto, Takashi ^d   Hertl, Michael ^e   Zambruno, Giovanna ^c   Hundorfean, Gheorghe ^f   Mudter, Jonas ^f   Neurath, Markus F ^f   Bruckner Tuderman, Leena ^a   Sitaru, Cassian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c LABORATORIO DI PATOLOGIA VASCOLARE   (Italy)

^d KURUME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN ANTIBODY; COLLAGEN TYPE 7; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTACOID; AUTOANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; EPITOPE; HYBRID PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ACCURACY; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BULLOUS PEMPHIGOID; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA ACQUISITA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; BLOOD; CELL CULTURE; EPITOPE MAPPING; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; METABOLISM; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN TYPE VII; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 84859199014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2172-13-16     Document Type: Article

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