Epitope spreading: lessons from autoimmune skin diseases.
Autoimmune diseases are initiated when patients develop aberrant T and/or B cell responses against self proteins. These responses presumably are directed to single immunogenic epitopes on these proteins. Recent data in animal models of autoimmune diseases suggest that the targets of immune responses...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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1998
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