The hardscrabble hypothesis: A reduction in chronic tissue damage has increased the incidence of autoimmune disease

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 366-367

  Naugler, Christopher ^a   Conrad, David M ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCIDENCE; INJURY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LATITUDE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SOCIAL STATUS; T LYMPHOCYTE; TISSUE INJURY; VIRUS INFECTION;

AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AUTOIMMUNITY; CAUSALITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; EVOLUTION; INCIDENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL;

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EID: 72449179874     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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