A central anti-DNA idiotype in human and murine systemic lupus erythematosus
β Scribed by Dan Eilat; Ruth Fischel; Avinoam Zlotnick
- Book ID
- 102824141
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 939 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0014-2980
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Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is regarded as a classical autoimmune disease. Despite this belief, no one has been able to induce the disease in naive animals, neither with DNA nor with anti-DNA antibodies. We report on the induction of SLE in BALB/c mice following immunization with a pathogenic
## Abstract Twentyβone sera from 11 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus were titrated with ^125^Iβssβcalf thymus DNA to determine their maximum capacity to bind DNA. Only five sera were capable of binding > 90% of the input DNA. The remaining sixteen sera showed maximum DNA binding levels be