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Volume 60, Issue 1 , Pages 52-54 , October 2010

Serum TARC/CCL17 levels are increased in dermatomyositis associated with interstitial lung disease

Tomohiko Kawashima
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yayoi Tada
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Corresponding author at: Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113 8655, Japan, Tel.: +81 3 5800 8661; fax: +81 3 3814 1503.
Yoshihide Asano
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Norihito Yazawa
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Manabu Tomita
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Zenshiro Tamaki
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Masahide Kubo
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Hironobu Ihn
- Department of Dermatology and Plastic Surgery, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
Makoto Sugaya
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Takafumi Kadono
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kunihiko Tamaki
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Shinichi Sato
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Received 2 June 2010

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