Antimitochondrial antibodies and reactivity to N. aromaticivorans proteins in icelandic patients with primary biliary cirrhosis and their relatives

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 99, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2143-2146

  Olafsson, Sigurdur ^b   Gudjonsson, Hallgrimur ^b   Selmi, Carlo ^b   Amano, Katsushi ^b   Invernizzi, Pietro ^b   Podda, Mauro ^b   Gershwin, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOACID DEHYDROGENASE; 2 OXOACID DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX; 2 OXOGLUTARATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRION ANTIBODY; NOVOSPHINGOBIUM AROMATICIVORANS PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BACTERIUM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ICELAND; MALE; NOVOSPHINGOBIUM AROMATICIVORANS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE;

ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; ICELAND; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIA; SPHINGOMONADACEAE;

EID: 8744289781     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2004.40397.x     Document Type: Article

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