Update on crescentic glomerulonephritis

Seminars in Immunopathology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 479-490

  Hénique, Carole ^a,b   Papista, Christina ^a,b   Guyonnet, Léa ^a,b   Lenoir, Olivia ^a,b   Tharaux, Pierre Louis ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR2; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CX3CR1; CXCL9 CHEMOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 23; INTERLEUKIN 4; CYTOKINE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; BONE MARROW CELL; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PODOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; REVIEW; TH1 CELL; TH17 CELL; CLASSIFICATION; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; IMMUNOLOGY; NEUTROPHIL; PATHOLOGY;

ANTI-NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY-ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; CYTOKINES; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; NEUTROPHILS;

EID: 84905906469     PISSN: 18632297     EISSN: 18632300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00281-014-0435-7     Document Type: Review

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