Human α-enolase is immunogenic, but not arthritogenic, in HLA-DR4-transgenic mice: Comment on the article by Kinloch et al

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1689-1691

  Haag, Sabrina ^a   Uysal, Hüseyin ^a   Bäcklund, Johan ^a   Tuncel, Jonatan ^a   Holmdahl, Rikard ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ENOLASE; HLA DR1 ANTIGEN; HLA DR4 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

AGE; ALLELE; ARTHRITOGENICITY; BONE DESTRUCTION; BONE EROSION; DISEASE COURSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOGENICITY; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX; SYNOVITIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, EXPERIMENTAL; AUTOIMMUNITY; HLA-DR4 ANTIGEN; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS;

EID: 84860476262     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.34379     Document Type: Letter

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