Multistep Pathogenesis of Autoimmune Disease
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Multistep Pathogenesis of Autoimmune Disease
In the immune system, many tolerance checkpoints exist to prevent self-antigens from stimulating the relentless growth of self-reactive B and T lymphocytes. The genes and molecular pathways underpinning these checkpoints overlap with those involved in tumor suppression. As with an inherited predisposition to cancer, inherited defects in self-tolerance genes typically precipitate autoimmune dise...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cell
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0092-8674
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2007.06.033