Defining criteria for autoimmune diseases
β Scribed by Alberto M. Marmont
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 130 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-5699
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Analysis of serum immunoglobulins from patients suffering from autoimmune disease has shown that pathogenically relevant autoantibodies directed at organ specific antigens are light chain restricted, i.e., they are entirely lambda or kappa type in a given patient. Furthermore, plasma cells involved
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