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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021

Serum Calponin 3 Levels in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis: Possible Association with Skin Sclerosis and Arthralgia.

Hirohito Kotani, Ayumi Yoshizaki, Kazuki M Matsuda, Yuta Norimatsu, Ai Kuzumi, Maiko Fukayama, Takemichi Fukasawa, Satoshi Ebata, Asako Yoshizaki-Ogawa, Yoshihide Asano and 2 more

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Special Issue: "Skin Disease and Comorbidities".Journal of clinical medicine · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hirohito KotaniDepartment of Dermatology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
Ayumi YoshizakiDepartment of Dermatology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
Kazuki M MatsudaDepartment of Dermatology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
Yuta NorimatsuDepartment of Dermatology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7649-0806
Ai KuzumiDepartment of Dermatology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
Maiko FukayamaDepartment of Dermatology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
Takemichi FukasawaDepartment of Dermatology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
Satoshi EbataDepartment of Dermatology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
Asako Yoshizaki-OgawaDepartment of Dermatology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
Yoshihide AsanoDepartment of Dermatology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-5560-9778
Koji ObaDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-5468-8988
Shinichi SatoDepartment of Dermatology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.
The University of Tokyo · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a connective tissue disease characterized by tissue fibrosis and vasculopathy in various organs with a background of inflammation initiated by autoimmune abnormalities. Calponin 3 plays a role in the cell motility and contractibility of fibroblasts during wound healing in the skin. We aimed to evaluate serum calponin 3 levels in SSc patients and their association with clinical manifestations of SSc. Serum samples were collected from 68 patients with SSc and 20 healthy controls. Serum calponin 3 levels were examined using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kits, and their association with clinical features of SSc was statistically analyzed. The upper limit of the 95% confidence interval of serum calponin 3 levels in healthy controls was utilized as the cut-off value when dividing SSc patients into the elevated and normal groups. Serum calponin 3 levels were significantly higher in SSc patients than in healthy controls (mean (95% confidence interval), 15.38 (14.66-16.11) vs. 13.56 (12.75-14.38) ng/mL,

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arthralgiacalponin 3fibrosisskin sclerosissystemic sclerosis

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PMID33466615
PMCPMC7828654
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