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Autoantibody to th ribonucleoprotein (nucleolar 7–2 rna protein particle) in patients with systemic sclerosis
1 Dec 1990
Abstract excerpt
We studied sera of 371 consecutive new patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma) who were first evaluated during 1984-1988. All sera were tested for antinuclear antibodies by immunofluorescence staining using HEp-2 cells as substrate. We excluded 219 sera showing dark nucleoli and screened for antibodies to Th in the remaining 152 sera by immunoprecipitation of a 32P-labeled HeLa cell extract. Fifteen...
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