Complement deficiency and autoimmunity

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 815, Issue , 1997, Pages 267-281

  Walport, M J ^a   Davies, K A ^a   Morley, B J ^a   Botto, M ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; AUTOANTIBODY; COMPLEMENT; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTIFACT; AUTOIMMUNITY; COMPLEMENT DEFICIENCY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETIOLOGY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

EID: 0030752511     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb52069.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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