Superantigens in Autoimmune Diseases: Still More Shades of Gray

Immunological Reviews

Volumn , Issue 154, 1996, Pages 175-191

  Renno, Toufic ^a   Acha Orbea, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; SUPERANTIGEN;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTHRITIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; ETIOLOGY; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SUPERANTIGENS;

EID: 0030299903     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065x.1996.tb00934.x     Document Type: Article

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