A symbiotic concept of autoimmunity and tumour immunity: Lessons from vitiligo

Trends in Immunology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 130-136

  Das, Pranab K ^a   Van Den Wijngaard, René M J G J ^a   Wankowicz Kalinska, Anna ^a   Le Poole, I Caroline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNITY; CANCER IMMUNOLOGY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DISEASE CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSURVEILLANCE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LEPROSY; MELANOCYTE; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOMA; REVIEW; SKIN; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN PIGMENTATION; STRESS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUMOR IMMUNITY; VITILIGO;

AUTOIMMUNITY; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; SKIN; SYMBIOSIS; VITILIGO;

EID: 0034913686     PISSN: 14714906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4906(00)01844-5     Document Type: Review

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