Lessons from a rare disease: IgG subclass and disease severity in alloimmune antenatal membranous nephropathy

Kidney International

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 494-497

  Beck, Laurence H ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; MATERNAL ANTIBODY; MEMBRANE METALLOENDOPEPTIDASE;

ALLOIMMUNITY; ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY TITER; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; ENZYME INHIBITION; FETUS DEATH; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; HYPERTENSION; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; IMMUNOMODULATION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MME GENE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, MEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; NEPRILYSIN; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84938394809     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2014.367     Document Type: Note

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