Infections, rheumatism and autoimmunity: The conflicting relationship between humans and their environment

Autoimmunity Reviews

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-4

  Doria, Andrea ^a   Sarzi Puttini, Piercarlo ^b   Shoenfeld, Yehuda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; FIBRILLARIN; GLYCINE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 17; KU ANTIGEN; PROTEIN SM; RITUXIMAB; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SYNTHETASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ANTIBODY;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DEATH; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INFECTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE; VACCINATION; VASCULITIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNITY; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INFECTION; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 54549113314     PISSN: 15689972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2008.07.014     Document Type: Editorial

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