Type 2 innate lymphoid cell counts are increased in patients with systemic sclerosis and correlate with the extent of fibrosis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 623-626

  Wohlfahrt, Thomas ^a   Usherenko, Svetlana ^a   Englbrecht, Matthias ^a   Dees, Clara ^a   Weber, Stefanie ^a   Beyer, Christian ^a   Gelse, Kolja ^a   Distler, Oliver ^b   Schett, Georg ^a   Distler, Jörg H W ^a   Ramming, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CUTANEOUS LYMPHOCYTE ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 17; THYMIC STROMAL LYMPHOPOIETIN; THYMIC STROMAL LYMPHOPOIETIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COUNT; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LYMPHOID CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAST CELL; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN FIBROSIS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; UPREGULATION; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN;

EID: 84960075583     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: 14682060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-207388     Document Type: Article

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