Crucial Role of the CB3-Region of Collagen IV in PARF-Induced Acute Rheumatic Fever

Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease are serious autoimmune sequelae to infections with Streptococcus pyogenes. Streptococcal M-proteins have been implicated in ARF pathogenesis. Their interaction with collagen type IV (CIV) is a triggering step that induces generation of collagen...

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Autores principales: Dinkla, Katrin, Talay, Susanne R., Mörgelin, Matthias, Graham, Rikki M. A., Rohde, Manfred, Nitsche-Schmitz, D. Patric, Chhatwal, Gursharan S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2646144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19252743
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004666

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2646144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19252743
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004666

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