Antagonist of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 ameliorates the initiation and progression of lupus nephritis and renal vasculitis in MRL/lpr mice
β Scribed by Hitoshi Hasegawa; Masashi Kohno; Miho Sasaki; Atsushi Inoue; Mitsuko R. Ito; Miho Terada; Kunio Hieshima; Hiroki Maruyama; Jun-ichi Miyazaki; Osamu Yoshie; Masato Nose; Shigeru Fujita
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 506 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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