Are There Environmental Forms of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases?
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Are there environmental forms of systemic autoimmune diseases?
A large number of drugs and an increasing number of environmental agents reportedly result in the appearance of a number of autoantibodies and in many instances in the appearance of a range of autoimmune clinical syndromes. The major disorders so recognized have marked resemblances to the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus. The commonly used term is drug-induced lupus; a better ter...
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1Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, The First Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen 361003, China 2Laboratory of Autoimmunity, School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA 3Department of Pathology and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-7660, USA 4Department of Rheumatology, Peking Un...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0091-6765
DOI: 10.2307/3434331