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Maintenance of immune hyporesponsiveness to melanosomal proteins by DHICA-mediated antioxidation: Possible implications for autoimmune vitiligo.
Free radical biology & medicine - 1 May 2011
Liu Xiao-Ming, Zhou Qiong, Xu Shi-Zheng, Wakamatsu Kazumasa, Lei Tie-Chi
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Melanocyte destruction in the skin of vitiligo patients has been considered to be a consequence of an autoimmune response against melanosomal proteins. However, little is known about the molecular mechanisms by which the immune system recognizes these sequestered intracellular self-proteins, which are confined in specialized organelles termed melanosomes, and is provoked into an autoimmune response to...
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