Immunoglobulin epitope spreading and autoimmune disease after peptide immunization: Sm B/B′-derived pppgmrpp and pppgirgp induce spliceosome autoimmunity

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 453-461

  James, Judith A ^a   Gross, Timothy ^a   Hal Scofield, R ^a   Harley, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; AUTOANTIGEN; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CLONAL ANERGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINURIA; RABBIT; SEIZURE; SPLICEOSOME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNITY; EPITOPES; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; RABBITS; SPLICEOSOMES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028912625     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.181.2.453     Document Type: Article

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