Anti-transfer RNA antibodies in two patients with pulmonary fibrosis, Raynaud's phenomenon and polyarthritis.

doi:10.1007/BF01452262

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Anti-transfer RNA antibodies in two patients with pulmonary fibrosis, Raynaud's phenomenon and polyarthritis.

Clinical rheumatology - 1 Jan 1998

Ohosone Y, Matsumura M, Chiba J, Nagaoka S, Matsuoka Y, Irimajiri S, Mimori T

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Patient W.S. (a 61-year-old woman) and patient T.M. (a 41-year-old man) developed recurrent fevers, polyarthritis, Raynaud's phenomenon and interstitial pulmonary fibrosis without apparent polymyositis. From HeLa cell extracts, sera from both patients immunoprecipitated all species of intact and...

Topics

Arthritis
Autoantibodies
Binding Sites, Antibody
Escherichia coli
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Mutation
Precipitin Tests
Pulmonary Fibrosis
RNA, Bacterial
RNA, Transfer
Raynaud Disease

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