Role of peripheral nerve fibres in acute and chronic inflammation in arthritis

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 117-126

  Straub, Rainer H ^a   Pongratz, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN FUNCTION; ARTHRITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL TRANSPORT; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INNERVATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTHRITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; NERVE FIBERS; PERIPHERAL NERVES;

EID: 84873412459     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2012.181     Document Type: Review

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