Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
"Mixed Connective Tissue Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A syndrome with overlapping clinical features of systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, polymyositis, and Raynaud's phenomenon. The disease is differentially characterized by high serum titers of antibodies to ribonuclease-sensitive extractable (saline soluble) nuclear antigen and a "speckled" epidermal nuclear staining pattern on direct immunofluorescence.
| Descriptor ID |
D008947
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C17.300.540
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| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mixed Connective Tissue Disease" by people in Profiles.
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Tetramers reveal IL-17-secreting CD4+ T cells that are specific for U1-70 in lupus and mixed connective tissue disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Mar 10; 112(10):3044-9.
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Outcome of pregnancies complicated by systemic sclerosis and mixed connective tissue disease. Lupus. 2006; 15(9):595-9.
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Mixed connective tissue disease. A clinical, histologic, and immunofluorescence study of eight cases. Am J Dermatopathol. 1997 Jun; 19(3):206-13.