Conceptual shifts in immunology: Comments on the 'two-way paradigm'

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 457-473

  Tauber, Alfred I ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHIMERA; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; REVIEW;

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; SELF TOLERANCE; TRANSPLANTATION CHIMERA; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 0032445970     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009916705339     Document Type: Review

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