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Journal articles
2004, 'Beta-2 glycoprotein I and its role in antiphospholipid syndrome-lessons from knockout mice', Clinical Immunology, 112, pp. 136 - 143
,2004, 'Effect of B2Glycoprotein I null mutation on reproductive outcome and antiphospholipid antibody-mediated pregnancy pathology in mice', Molecular Human Reproduction, pp. 1 - 8
,2004, 'Effect of beta(2)-glycoprotein I null mutation on reproductive outcome and antiphospholipid antibody-mediated pregnancy pathology in mice', Thrombosis Research, 114, pp. 608 - 608
,2004, 'Effect of beta(2)-glycoprotein I null mutation on reproductive outcomea and antiphospholipid antibody-mediated pregnancy pathology in mice', Molecular Human Reproduction, 10, pp. 409 - 416
,2004, 'Labile zinc and zinc transporter ZnT4 in mast cell granules: role in regulation of caspase activation and NF-kappaB translocation', Journal of Immunology, 172, pp. 7750 - 7760
,2004, 'Laboratory tests for the antiphospholipid syndrome', Pathology, 36, pp. 129 - 138
,2004, 'No correlations between anti-endothelial cell and anti phospholipid antibodies in a cohort of 176 leprosy patients', Thrombosis Research, 114, pp. 611 - 611
,2004, 'Urokinase-type plasminogen activator is a preferred substrate of thehuman epithelium serine protease tryptase epsilon/PRSS22', Federation of American Societies for Experimantal Biology Journal, 18, pp. A793 - A793
,2003, 'Anti-β
2003, 'Anti-β
2003, 'Anti-.2-glycoprotein I antibodies and the antiphospholipid syndrome', Autoimmunity Reviews, 2, pp. 229 - 234
,2003, 'Anti-B2-glycoprotein I autoantibodiese require an antigen density threshold, consistent with divalent binding', Lupus, 12, pp. 37 - 45
,2003, 'Cardiac disease in the antiphospholipid syndrome: recommendations for treatment. Committee consensus report', Lupus, 12, pp. 518 - 523
,2003, 'Hemopoietic Cells with Features of the Mast Cell and Basophil Lineages and their Potential Role in Allergy', Current Drug Targets, 2, pp. 293 - 302
,2003, 'MCs/Basophils in Human Blood', ACI International, 15, pp. 11 - 16
,2003, 'MCs/Basophils in human Blood - What are they and how did they get there?', Allergy and Clinical Immunology International, 15, pp. 11 - 17
,2002, 'Biochemical and functional characterization of human transmembrane tryptase (TMT)/tryptase γ: TMT is an exocytosed mast cell protease that induces airway hyperresponsiveness in vivo via an interleukin-13/interleukin-4 receptor α/signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) 6-dependent pathway', Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277, pp. 41906 - 41915, http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M205868200
,2002, 'Heparin inhibits the binding of β2-glycoprotein I to phospholipids and promotes the plasmin-mediated inactivation of this blood protein. Elucidation of the consequences of the two biological events in patients with the anti-phospholipid syndrome', Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277, pp. 2644 - 2649, http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M110176200
,2002, 'Biochemical and Functional Characterisation of Human Transmembrane Tryptase (TMT)/Tryptase y', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277, pp. 41906 - 41915
,2002, 'Distinguishing Features of Anti-2-glycoprotein 1 Antibodies between Patients with Leprasy and the Antiphospholipid Syndrome', Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 87, pp. 599 - 605
,2002, 'Heparin Inhabits the Binding of .2-glycoprotein 1 to Phospholipids and Promotes the Plasmin-mediated Inactivation of this Blood Protein', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277, pp. 2644 - 2649
,2002, 'IL-16 Regulation of Human Mast Cells/Basophils and Their Susceptibility to HIV-1', Journal of Immunology, 168, pp. 4127 - 4134
,2002, 'RasGRP4, a New Mast Cell - Restricted Ras Guanine Nucleotide-releasing Protein with Calcium- and Diacylglycerol-binding Motifs', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277, pp. 25756 - 25774
,2002, 'Use of Single Point Mutations in Domain I of B2-Glycoprotein I to Determine Fine Antigenic Specifity of Antiphospholipid Autoantibodies', Journal of Immunology, pp. 7097 - 7103
,2001, 'Detection of 'antiphospholipid' antibodies: A single chromogenic assay of thrombin generation sensitively detects lupus anticoagulants, anticardiolipin antibodies, plus antibodies binding β
2001, 'Impaired In vitro thrombin generation in beta 2-glycoprotein I null mice', ARTHRITIS RESEARCH & THERAPY, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/ar248
,2001, 'Cells with features of mast cells and basophils', Allergy and Clinical Immunology International, 13, pp. 197 - 202
,2001, 'Human Tryptas essilon (PRSS26), a new member of the Chromosome 16p13.3 family of human serine proteases expressed in airway epithelian cells', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, pp. 49169 - 49182
,2001, 'Impaired thrombin generation in Beta 2-gylcoprotein I null mice', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, pp. 13817 - 13821
,2001, 'Mast cell/basophils in the peripheral blood of allergic individuals who are HIV-1 susceptible due to their surface expression of CD4 and the chemokine receptors CCR3, CCR5 and CXCR4', Blood, pp. 3484 - 3490
,2001, 'Tryptase 4, a new member of the chromosome 17 family of mouse serine proteases', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, pp. 20648 - 20658
,2000, 'Identification of a novel population of mast cells/basophils in human periphal blood of allergic patients which is HIV-1 susceptible due to its surface expression of CD4, CCR5, and CXCR4', JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY, 105, pp. S86 - S87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0091-6749(00)90690-0
,2000, 'Identification, cloning, and expression of a new human and mouse tryptase', JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY, 105, pp. S89 - S89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0091-6749(00)90697-3
,2000, 'Epitope studies with anti-beta 2-glycoprotein I antibodies from autoantibody and immunized sources', Journal of Autoimmunity, 15, pp. 91 - 96
,1999, 'Monoclonal antibodies recognizing antigens expressed in human mast cells and their progenitors', FASEB JOURNAL, 13, pp. A337 - A337, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000082033301949&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,1999, 'Cells that have features of both mast cells and basophils in the peripheral blood of allergy, asthma, and drug reactive', JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY, 103, pp. S43 - S43, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000078509000169&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,1999, 'Mast-cell growth and differentiation', Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 54, pp. 306 - 313, http://dx.doi.org/10.1034/j.1398-9995.1999.00086.x
,1999, 'Monoclonal antibodies recognizing antigens expressed in human mast cells and their progenitors.', JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY, 103, pp. S43 - S43, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000078509000170&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,1999, 'Testing for and clinical significance of anticardiolipin antibodies', Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, 6, pp. 775 - 782, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/cdli.6.6.775-782.1999
,1999, 'Human tryptases alpha and beta/II are functionally distinct due, in part, to a single amino acid difference in one of the surface loops that forms the substrate-binding cleft', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, pp. 19670 - 19676
,1999, 'Identification of a new member of the tryptase family of mouse and human mast cell proteases which possesses a novel COOH-terminal hydrophobic extension', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, pp. 30784 - 30793
,1998, 'Anti-β
1998, 'Anti-β2-glycoprotein I and anti-prothrombin antibodies in patients with the 'antiphospholipid' syndrome: Immunological specificity and clotting profiles', Lupus, 7, pp. 323 - 332, http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/096120398678920253
,1998, 'Use of various methods for anticardiolipin detection in the updated American College of Rheumatology revised criteria for the classification of systemic lupus erythematosus: Comment on the letter by Hochberg [1]', Arthritis and Rheumatism, 41, pp. 1326 - 1327, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1529-0131(199807)41:7<1326::AID-ART29>3.0.CO;2-4
,1998, 'Human β2-glycoprotein I binds to endothelial cells through a cluster of lysine residues that are critical for anionic phospholipid binding and offers epitopes for anti-β2-glycoprotein I antibodies', Journal of Immunology, 160, pp. 5572 - 5578
,1998, 'Antibodies to β2-glycoprotein-I: Urea resistance, binding specificity, and association with thrombosis', Journal of Clinical Immunology, 18, pp. 380 - 391, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1023274505128
,1998, 'β
1998, 'Anti-B2_Glycoprotein I Autoantibodies from Patients with the `Antiphospholipid` Syndrome Bind to B2_Glycoprotein I with Low Affinity: Demerization of B2-Glycoprotein I Induces a Significant Increase in Anti-B2_Glycoprotein I Anti', Journal of Immunology, 161, pp. 2038 - 2043
,1998, 'Anti-B2-glycoprotein I and anti-prothrombin antibodies in patients with the `antiphospholipid` syndrome: Immunological specificity and clotting profiles.', Lupus, pp. 323 - 332
,1998, 'Association of mast cells with fibrosis and fatty infiltration in the minor salivary glands of patients with Sjogren`s syndrome', Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, 16, pp. 63 - 65
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