A human endogenous retroviral superantigen as candidate autoimmune gene in type I diabetes

Cell

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 303-313

  Conrad, Bernard ^a   Weissmahr, Richard Nicolas ^b   Böni, Jürg ^b   Arcari, Rosanna ^c   Schüpbach, Jörg ^b   Mach, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPERANTIGEN; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS; TUMOR VIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0030840944     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80338-4     Document Type: Article

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