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Autoimmunity heats up

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A new study strengthens the view that heat-shock proteins serve as alarm bells for the immune system. Hsp70 appears to influence the immune response to endogenous stimuli, and may serve as a trigger for autoimmunity (pages 1469–1476).

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Figure 1: Death and the dendritic cell.

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