Nature Medicine
4, 386 - 388 (1998)
doi:10.1038/nm0498-386
Microchimerism: Friend or foe?Alan Tyndall1
& Alois Gratwohl2
1Department of Rheumatology, University of Basel CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland
2Division of Hematology, University of Basel CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland Non-self fetal cells in women with scleroderma suggest a mechanism similar to allogeneic graft-versus-host disease in autoimmunity. REFERENCES
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