Publication Date:
1982-09-17
Description:
Antibodies to collagen types I, II, and IV were measured in patients with otosclerosis and patients with Meniere's disease. Levels of antibodies to type II collagen were significantly higher in these patients than in control subjects, while no differences were found among levels of antibodies to collagen type I or type IV. These observations suggest a possible role for type II collagen autoimmunity in the etiology of otosclerosis and Meniere's disease.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Yoo, T J -- Stuart, J M -- Kang, A H -- Townes, A S -- Tomoda, K -- Dixit, S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 Sep 17;217(4565):1153-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7112122" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Autoantibodies/analysis
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Autoimmune Diseases/*immunology
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Collagen/classification/*immunology
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Humans
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Meniere Disease/*immunology
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Osteosclerosis/*immunology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
