Clinical characteristics of Japanese patients with anti-PL-7 (anti-threonyl-tRNA synthetase) autoantibodies.

S. Sato, M. Hirakata, Masataka Kuwana, Kouki Nakamura, Akira Suwa, S Inada, Tatsuyuki Mimori, Y Ikeda

PubMed · 2005 · 61 citations · 0 references

Abstract

These results indicate that anti-PL-7 autoantibodies are closely associated with PM-SSc overlap as well as ILD, arthritis and sclerodactyly in our series of Japanese patients.