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. 2008 Jan;21(1):57-67.
doi: 10.1080/08998280.2008.11928360.

Virginia Pascual, MD: a conversation with the editor

Virginia Pascual  1 , William Clifford Roberts
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Virginia Pascual, MD: a conversation with the editor

Virginia Pascual et al. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2008 Jan.
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Figures

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Figure 1
Dr. Virginia Pascual during the interview.
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Figure 2
On the phone at age 5.
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Figure 3
Location of Ceuta, south of Mainland Spain.
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Figure 4
At age 15 (on the right), with her family.
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Figure 5
At the retirement symposium for her mentor, Dr. J. Donald Capra, in Oklahoma City, April 2007. Left to right: Dr. Max Cooper, Dr. Jacques Banchereau, Dr. Capra, Dr. Roger Perlmutter, Dr. Tasuko Honjo, and Dr. Mike Carroll.
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Figure 6
At the Texas Scottish Rite Pediatric Rheumatology Clinic with Tim, Paul, and Jacob Prevou—patients she has followed in the clinic for more than 10 years.
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Figure 7
With members of her laboratory staff at the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, November 2007.
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Figure 8
At the Uehara Foundation Symposium in Tokyo, 2005 (first row, fifth from the right).
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

Original research

    1. Regueiro JR, Arnaiz-Villena A, Ortiz de Landázuri M, Martín Villa JM, Vicario JL, Pascual-Ruiz V, Guerra-Garcia F, Alcamí J, López-Botet M, Manzanares J. Familial defect of CD3 (T3) expression by T cells associated with rare gut epithelial cell autoantibodies. Lancet. 1986;1(8492):1274–1245. - PubMed
    1. Pascual V, Randen I, Thompson K, Sioud M, Forre O, Natvig J, Capra JD. The complete nucleotide sequences of the heavy chain variable regions of six monospecific rheumatoid factors derived from Epstein-Barr virus–transformed B cells isolated from the synovial tissue of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Further evidence that some autoantibodies are unmutated copies of germ line genes. J Clin Invest. 1990;86(4):1320–1328. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Pascual V, Victor K, Lelsz D, Spellerberg MB, Hamblin TJ, Thompson KM, Randen I, Natvig J, Capra JD, Stevenson FK. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the V regions of two IgM cold agglutinins. Evidence that the VH4-21 gene segment is responsible for the major cross-reactive idiotype. J Immunol. 1991;146(12):4385–4391. - PubMed
    1. Pascual V, Victor K, Spellerberg M, Hamblin TJ, Stevenson FK, Capra JD. VH restriction among human cold agglutinins. The VH4-21 gene segment is required to encode anti-I and anti-i specificities. J Immunol. 1992;149(7):2337–2344. - PubMed
    1. Pascual V, Victor K, Randen I, Thompson K, Steinitz M, F⊘rre O, Fu SM, Natvig JB, Capra JD. Nucleotide sequence analysis of rheumatoid factors and polyreactive antibodies derived from patients with rheumatoid arthritis reveals diverse use of VH and VL gene segments and extensive variability in CDR-3. Scand J Immunol. 1992;36(2):349–362. - PubMed

Chapters and reviews

    1. Pascual V, Capra JD. Human heavy chain genes and autoimmunity. In: Osterhaus ADME, Uytdehaag FGCM, editors. Idiotype Networks in Biology and Medicine. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers BV; 1990. pp. 27–35.
    1. Pascual V, Capra JD. Human immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable region genes: organization, polymorphism, and expression. Adv Immunol. 1991;49:1–74. - PubMed
    1. Pascual V, Capra JD. B-cell superantigens? Curr Biol. 1991;1(5):315–317. - PubMed
    1. Pascual V, Capra JD. VH4-21, a human VH gene segment overrepresented in the autoimmune repertoire. Arthritis Rheum. 1992;35(1):11–18. - PubMed
    1. Pascual V, Capra JD. Immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region gene usage in human autoimmune diseases. In: Aledort LM, Hoyer LW, Lusher JM, Reisner HM, White GC III, editors. Inhibitors to Coagulation Factors [Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 386] New York: Plenum Publishing; 1995. pp. 133–140. - PubMed

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