Autoimmunizing mechanisms in thymoma and thymus.
Autoimmunizing mechanisms are very hard to study in humans, so we have focused on vital clues in thymomas and hyperplastic thymuses in myasthenia gravis (MG). According to our multi-step hypothesis: thymic epithelial cells (TEC) present epitopes from the isolated acetylcholine receptor (AChR) subuni...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2008
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