Autoimmunity: Will worms cure rheumatoid arthritis?

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 138-140

  Shor, Dana Ben Ami ^a   Shoenfeld, Yehuda ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ASCARIS SUUM; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD4+ CD25+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL EXPANSION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INCIDENCE; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; THERAPY WITH HELMINTHS;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOIMMUNITY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-17; THERAPY WITH HELMINTHS;

EID: 84874645143     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2013.3     Document Type: Review

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