Serum Autoantibodies: From Identification to Clinical Relevance
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1 Liver Unit and Center for Autoimmune Liver Diseases, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Via Manzoni 56, 20089 Rozzano, Italy 2 Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven and Experimental Laboratory Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven. Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium 3Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Biopolis, 41110 Larissa, Greece 4Cellular Immunotherapy and Molecular Immunodiagnostics, Biomedical Section, Institute of Research and Technology Thessaly, 41222 Larissa, Greece 5 Institute of Liver Studies, King’s College London School of Medicine King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill Campus, London SE5 9RS, UK
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دوره 2013 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2013