Murine models of lupus induced by hypomethylated T cells (DNA Hypomethylation and Lupus?)

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 900, Issue , 2012, Pages 169-180

  Richardson, Bruce ^a   Sawalha, Amr H ^a   Ray, Donna ^a   Yung, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Autoimmunity; DNA methylation; Drug induced lupus; Lupus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868585470     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-720-4_8     Document Type: Article

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