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Is alopecia areata an autoimmune-response against melanogenesis-related proteins, exposed by abnormal MHC class I expression in the anagen hair bulb?
The etiology of alopecia areata (AA), a putative autoimmune disease characterized by sudden hair loss, has remained obscure. It is not understood, how the characteristic inflammatory infiltrate that selectively attacks anagen hair follicles in AA is generated. We hypothesize that this reflects an un...
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Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
1993
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2588848/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7716973 |