Autoimmunity versus horror autotoxicus: The struggle for recognition

Nature Immunology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 279-281

  Silverstein, Arthur M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ART; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA;

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AUTOIMMUNITY; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINURIA, PAROXYSMAL; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; PORTRAITS;

EID: 0035320525     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/86280     Document Type: Note

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