Molecular Mimicry - Other Autoimmune Diseases

Added to Site March 2007

• The gut-joint axis: cross-reactive food antibodies in rheumatoid arthritis
• A way out of the maze: Campylobacter jejuni gene polymorphisms define Guillain–Barre´ syndrome
• Etiology of Crohn’s disease: Do certain food additives cause intestinal inflammation by molecular mimicry of mycobacterial lipids?

Added to Site November 2005

• Expanded T cells from pancreatic lymph nodes of type 1 diabetic subjects recognize an insulin epitope
• Prime role for an insulin epitope in the development of type 1 diabetes in NOD mice
• Insulin trigger for diabetes
• Autoimmune uveitis and antigenic mimicry of environmental antigens
• A viral epitope that mimics a self antigen can accelerate but not initiate autoimmune diabetes
• The Guillain–Barré syndrome: a true case of molecular mimicry
• A Type 1 Diabetes-related Protein from Wheat
• Autoimmune uveitis induced by molecular mimicry of peptides from rotavirus, bovine casein and retinal S-antigen
• Molecular Mimicry in Type 1 Diabetes; Immune Cross-Reactivity between Islet Autoantigen and Human Cytomegalovirus but Not Coxsackie Virus
• Cytomegalovirus in autoimmunity: T cell crossreactivity to viral antigen and autoantigen glutamic acid decarboxylase
• Molecular Mimicry in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Revisited: T-Cell Clones to GAD65 Peptides with Sequence Homology to Coxsackie or Proinsulin Peptides do not Crossreact with Homologous Counterpart
• Effect of coincident enterovirus infectin and cows' milk exposure on immunisation to insulin in early infancy
• Modulation of immune function by dietary lectins in rheumatoid arthritis