The toxic oil syndrome: An example of an
✍
Susanne A. Bell
📂
Article
📅
1996
🏛
Springer
🌐
English
⚖ 223 KB
The toxic oil syndrome (TOS) is a chemically induced autoimmune-like reaction in humans. The etiologic agent(s) have so far not clearly been identified. A short overview is given on this disease which is associated with a unique antibody specificity to cryptic epitopes of C-reactive protein in affec