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Delayed drug hypersensitivity: models of T-cell stimulation.
British journal of clinical pharmacology - 1 May 2011
Adam Jacqueline, Pichler Werner J, Yerly Daniel
Abstract excerpt
Drug-induced hypersensitivity reactions can cause a variety of serious diseases by involving drug-specific T-cells. Many of these reactions have been explained by the hapten concept, which postulates that small chemical compounds need to bind covalently to proteins to be recognized by the immune system. Due to their chemical reactivity, haptens stimulate the innate immunity by binding covalently to endogenous...
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