@article{16031,
  keywords = {Adult, Aged, Antibodies, Antinuclear, Antigen-Antibody Complex, Humans, leprosy, Middle Aged, Phenotype, Radioimmunoassay},
  author = {Furukawa F and Sekita K and Hamashima Y and Ozaki M and Imamura S},
  title = {Evaluation of circulating immune complexes and antinuclear antibodies in Japanese patients with leprosy.},
  abstract = {<p>In 79 patients with leprosy a significant increase of anti-extractable nuclear antigen (ENA) antibodies and circulating immune complexes (CIC) was found. No correlation between CIC and anti-ENA antibodies was demonstrable. Since such a correlation is known from antinuclear antibodies and CIC in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, it appears likely that anti-ENA antibodies do not play a causative role in CIC-mediated pathogenesis of leprosy.</p>},
  year = {1983},
  journal = {Archives of dermatological research},
  volume = {275},
  pages = {144-6},
  month = {1983},
  issn = {0340-3696},
  doi = {10.1007/bf00510043},
  language = {eng},
}