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Women, autoimmunity, and cancer: a dangerous liaison between estrogen and activation-induced deaminase?
Why women are more susceptible to autoimmune diseases is not completely clear, but new data suggest that the hormone estrogen may play an important role. A new study now shows that estrogen activates the expression of activation-induced deaminase (AID), a protein that drives antibody diversification...
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The Rockefeller University Press
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2626682/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19139165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.20080086 |