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Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 572815, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/572815
Research Article
Development of a Recombinant Cell-Based Indirect Immunofluorescence Assay for the Determination of Autoantibodies against Soluble Liver Antigen in Autoimmune Hepatitis
1Institute of Experimental Immunology, Euroimmun AG, Seekamp 31, 23560 Lübeck, Germany
2Institute of Liver Studies, School of Medicine, King's College London, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS, UK
Received 4 October 2012; Accepted 16 November 2012
Academic Editor: Pietro Invernizzi
Copyright © 2013 Christiane Radzimski et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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