Mechanisms and assessment of IgG4-related disease: Lessons for the rheumatologist

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 148-159

  Yamamoto, Motohisa ^a   Takahashi, Hiroki ^a   Shinomura, Yasuhisa ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; AUTOANTIBODY; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED ALVEOLAR LESION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED BRONCHIAL LESION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED DISEASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED HYPOPHYSITIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED LYMPHADENOPATHY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED OPHTHALMIC DISEASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED PACHYMENINGITIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED PANCREATITIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED PROSTATITIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED THYROIDITIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4 RELATED TUBULOINTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; INNATE IMMUNITY; LACRIMAL GLAND; MIKULICZ DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SALIVARY GLAND; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ANTIBODY DETECTION; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; BILE DUCT DISEASE; CELL INFILTRATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DACRYOCYSTITIS; DURA MATER; EARLY INTERVENTION; FIBROSIS; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LACRIMAL GLAND DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; ORBIT INFLAMMATION; PANCREAS DISEASE; PHLEBITIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE DISEASE; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SIALOADENITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; TH2 CELL; THYROID DISEASE;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DACRYOCYSTITIS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MIKULICZ' DISEASE; PANCREATITIS; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 84896725779     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2013.183     Document Type: Review

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