Anti-DNA idiotypes and anti-idiotypes in systemic lupus erythematosus.
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The network theory of the immune system proposes that idiotype-anti-idiotype interactions provide important immunoregulatory controls (1). In many experimental systems, the passive administration of heterologous anti-idiotypic ant ibody has been shown to enhance (2) or suppress (3) immune responses. In addition, spontaneous auto-anti-idiotypic antibody has been detected after antigenic challeng...
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عنوان ژورنال: Japanese Journal of Medicine
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0021-5120,1881-123X
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine1962.29.655