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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |