Involvement of epitope mimicry in potentiation but not initiation of autoimmune disease

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 5888-5893

  Rao, Varada P ^b   Kajon, Adriana E ^a   Spindler, Katherine R ^a   Carayanniotis, George ^b  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ADENOVIRUS; ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CROSS REACTION; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADENOVIRUS E1B PROTEINS; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; EPITOPES; INTERLEUKIN-2; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 0033563256     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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