Private specificities can dominate the humoral response to self-antigens in patients with cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis

Private specificities can dominate the humoral response to self-antigens in patients with cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The pathogenetic mechanisms that underlie the interstitial lung disease cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA) may involve an immunological reaction to unidentified antigens in the lung, resulting in tissue damage.</p> <p>...

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Main Authors: Lake Richard A, Robinson Bruce WS, Stevenson Sandra, Callow Marinella, Robinson Cleo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2001-02-01
Series:Respiratory Research
Subjects:
antisynthetase syndrome
cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis
diagnostic autoantibodies
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/rr46

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