Sjögren syndrome

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Brito Zerón, Pilar ^a,b,c   Baldini, Chiara ^d   Bootsma, Hendrika ^e   Bowman, Simon J ^f   Jonsson, Roland ^g,h   Mariette, Xavier ^i,j   Sivils, Kathy ^k   Theander, Elke ^l   Tzioufas, Athanasios ^m   Ramos Casals, Manuel ^b,c,n  

^a Hospital CIMA Sanitas   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^h HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^j INSERM U1184   (France)

^k OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^l LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; FINGOLIMOD; RITUXIMAB; ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CHRONICITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXOCRINE GLAND; FOLLOW UP; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SALIVARY GLAND; SALIVARY GLAND SCINTISCANNING; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SMOKING; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS INFECTION; BLOOD; LYMPHOMA; PATHOLOGY;

ANTIBODIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LYMPHOMA; SALIVARY GLANDS; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME;

EID: 84991521266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2056676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2016.47     Document Type: Article

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