TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Abdallah Hassan Ali AU - Dawlat M. Abdelhamid Belal , AU - Mohamed Mostafa Elkhatib , AU - Sawsan Abdelmonem Fadda , TI - B - cell - attracting chemokine CXCL13 as a marker of disease activity and renal involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Abdallah Hassan Ali , KW - CXCL13 KW - Lupus nephritis KW - Systemic lupus erythematosus N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Internal Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - This work aimed to study whether serum CXCL13 levels ( 1 ) are elevated in patients with SLE , ( 2 ) correlate with disease activity and ( 3 ) indicate renal involvement in SLE patients . 64 patients with SLE fulfilling the 1997 revised criteria for the classification of SLE and 20 age / sex - matched healthy controls included in this study were subjected to full history taking , clinical examination , routine laboratory investigations as well as measurement of serum CXCL13 level UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -