Molecular Mimicry, Microbes, and Autoimmunity
Contributors: Madeleine W. Cunningham (Editor); Robert S. Fujinami (Editor)
Publisher: ASM Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781555811945
Subjects: Molecular biology; Metric System; Microbiology; Infectious Diseases; Mechanisms Of Immune Response; Molecular Microbiology; Science; Medical / Nursing; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology; Immunology; Communicable diseases; Viral antigens; Autoimmune diseases; Complications; Etiology
First sentence: Some diseases are initiated by quite normal immune responses to foreign antigens, such as microbes, but the antibodies or T cells that are stimulated happen to recognize a similar (cross-reactive ) self-protein.