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Evidence for somatic mutation and affinity maturation of diabetes associated human autoantibodies to glutamate decarboxylase.
Journal of autoimmunity - 1 Jun 1996
Jury K M, Loeffler D, Eiermann T H, Ziegler B, Boehm B O, Richter W
Abstract excerpt
The processes that lead to the production of islet cell autoantibodies in insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetes mellitus (IDDM) are largely unknown. Humoral autoimmunity may be the result of an antigen-independent polyclonal B cell activation, or a consequence of an antigen driven B cell activation...
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