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Determinant spreading: lessons from animal models and human disease
1 Aug 1998
Abstract excerpt
Spreading of the immune response is a common theme in organ-specific and systemic autoimmune diseases. We evaluated whether some of the mixed antinuclear antibody patterns characteristic of systemic autoimmunity might be the result of determinant spreading from a single initiating event. Immunisation of healthy mice with individual protein components of the La/Ro ribonucleoprotein (RNP) targeted in systemic lupus...
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