Antimitochondrial antibodies may be insufficiently specific to define primary biliary cirrhosis-like disease in mouse models

Hepatology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 828-830

  Hohenester, Simon ^a   Beuers, Ulrich ^a   Medina, Juan F ^b   Elferink, Ronald P Oude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY;

DISEASE MODEL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, ANTI-IDIOTYPIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MITOCHONDRIA, LIVER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84880994898     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.26243     Document Type: Letter

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