Autoimmune uveitis and antigenic mimicry of environmental antigens

Autoimmunity Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 383-387

  Wildner, Gerhild ^a   Diedrichs Möhring, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoimmune uveitis; Bovine milk casein; EAU, experimental autoimmune uveitis; Molecular mimicry; Peptides; Rotavirus; S Ag, retinal S antigen.; TCR, T cell receptor

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; CASEIN; EPITOPE; FOOD ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN; INTERPHOTORECEPTOR RETINOID BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; RETINA S ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENICITY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BLOOD RETINA BARRIER; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CROSS REACTION; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; ROTAVIRUS; SEROLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE; UVEITIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CASEIN KINASE II; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; ROTAVIRUS; UVEITIS;

EID: 3342947018     PISSN: 15689972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2004.01.002     Document Type: Review

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