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Molecular mimicry : infection inducing autoimmune disease /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Oldstone, Michael B. A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2005]
Series:Current topics in microbiology and immunology. v. 296.
Subjects:
Autoimmune Diseases > ethnology.
Autoimmune Diseases > immunology.
Autoimmunity.
Infection > complications.
Molecular Mimicry > immunology.
Autoimmune diseases.
Mimicry (Chemistry)
Allergy > Immunological aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Molecular mimicry, microbial infection, and autoimmune disease: evolution of the concept
  • The structural interactions between T cell receptors and MHC-peptide complexes place physical limits on self-nonself discrimination
  • A virus-induced molecular mimicry model of multiple sclerosis
  • Suppression of autoimmunity via microbial mimics of altered peptide ligands
  • Molecular and cellular mechanisms, pathogenesis, and treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes obtained through study of a transgenic model of molecular mimicry
  • Trypanosoma cruzi-induced molecular mimicry and Chagas' Disease
  • HTLV-1 induced molecular mimicry in neurological disease
  • Molecular mimicry: anti-DNA antibodies bind microbial and nonnucleic acid self-antigens
  • Chlamydia and antigenic mimicry