Nature Medicine
3, 1085 - 1087 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm1097-1085
Viral damage and the breakdown of self-toleranceLawrence Steinman1
& Paul Conlon2
1Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5429, USA
2Department of Immunology, Neurocrine Biosciences Inc., San Diego, California 92121, USA Theiler's virus induces breakdown of tolerance to myelin and initiates a multiple sclerosis-like autoimmune disease in mice (pages 1133−1136).
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