Multiple autoantigen mimotopes of infectious agents induce autoimmune arthritis and uveitis in Lewis rats

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 677-679

  Wildner, Gerhild ^a   Diedrichs Moehring, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; HLA B27 ANTIGEN; KER333 ANTIGEN; PDS ANTIGEN; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE B2702PA; PEPTIDE B27PB; PEPTIDE B27PD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BORRELIA; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE MODEL; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; ROTAVIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHIGELLA; T LYMPHOCYTE; UVEITIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; ARTHRITIS, EXPERIMENTAL; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CROSS REACTIONS; IMMUNIZATION; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; UVEITIS;

EID: 23944440927     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.12.5.677-679.2005     Document Type: Article

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