Superantigens and autoimmune disease: are they involved?
作者:
Allen Sawitzke,
Hong-Hua Mu,
Barry Cole,
期刊:
Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
(OVID Available online 1999)
卷期:
Volume 12,
issue 3
页码: 213-219
ISSN:0951-7375
年代: 1999
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
In over 10 years since the definition of superantigens, much has been learned about host cell-superantigen interactions. The initial simple set of rules used to define these interactions has given way to a more complex system, in which the activation of multiple cell types can occur as a consequence of superantigen-cell interactions or as a result of bystander effects based on the induction of a specific cytokine milieu. As a consequence, our ideas concerning the ways in which superantigens might be involved in disease are also expanding rapidly. This review highlights some of the many different pathways of superantigen-associated pathogenesis currently under investigation.
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