Autoimmunity provoked by infection: How good is the case for T cell epitope mimicry?

Nature Immunology

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 797-801

  Benoist, Christophe ^a   Mathis, Diane ^a  

^a JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXSACKIE VIRUS B3; COXSACKIE VIRUS B4; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LYME DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOUSE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RUBELLA; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANTIGENS, SURFACE; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AUTOIMMUNITY; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CAPSID; CAPSID PROTEINS; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; EYE PROTEINS; HUMANS; KERATITIS, HERPETIC; LIPOPROTEINS; LYME DISEASE; LYME DISEASE VACCINES; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN-1; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MIMICRY;

EID: 0035554950     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni0901-797     Document Type: Review

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