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Genetic control of susceptibility to autoimmune gastritis.
International reviews of immunology - 1 Jan 2000
Baxter Alan G, Jordan Margaret A, Silveira Pablo A, Wilson Wendy E, Van Driel Ian R
Abstract excerpt
A familial component to the tendency to develop autoimmune gastritis has long been recognized. Although linkage to certain HLA alleles and an association with the endocrine autoimmune diseases thyroiditis and type 1 diabetes have been reported, little further progress has been achieved in clinical studies. In contrast, the mouse model of gastritis induced in the BALB/c strain by thymectomy in the third day of...
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