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Molecular Mimicry and Autoimmunity

The term Molecular mimicry describes the sequence similarity between foreign (microorganism's peptides) and self peptides (the host's antigen). This phenomenon has been recently discovered as a one of the major mechanism in which there is a break-down of self-tolerance of the immune system...

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Autores principales: Maoz-Segal, Ramit, Andrade, Paulo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151819/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63269-2.00054-4