The continuous discovery of autoantigens in endocrine organ-specific autoimmunity: Do they help us to understand pathogenesis?

Springer Seminars in Immunopathology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 243-259

  Fierabracci, Alessandra ^a   Bottazzo, Gian Franco ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; AUTOANTIGEN;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AUTOIMMUNITY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036448386     PISSN: 03444325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00281-002-0114-y     Document Type: Review

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