B cells tell scleroderma fibroblasts to produce collagen

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Daoussis, Dimitrios ^a   Liossis, Stamatis Nick C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; AUTOANTIBODY; B CELL ACTIVATING FACTOR; B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CD19 ANTIBODY; CD19 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; INTERLEUKIN 6; METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; RITUXIMAB; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CONTACT; CELLS; COLLAGEN DEGRADATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EX VIVO STUDY; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG FIBROSIS; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; SCLERODERMA; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SKIN FIBROSIS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; UPREGULATION; FIBROBLAST; IMMUNOLOGY; NOTE;

B-CELL ACTIVATING FACTOR; B-LYMPHOCYTES; COLLAGEN; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS;

EID: 84888418808     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar4392     Document Type: Editorial

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