Current aspects of pathogenesis in Sjögren’s syndrome

Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 325-334

  Voulgarelis, Michael ^a   Tzioufas, Athanasios G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

apoptosis; autoimmune exocrinopathy; cytokines; pathogenesis; Sj gren s syndrome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993808220     PISSN: 1759720X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1759720X10381431     Document Type: Review

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