Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), an acute ... and sensory axonal neuropathy (AMSAN) and Miller-Fisher syndrome (MFS), etc. One of the widely accepted mechanisms of GBS is a molecular mimicry hypothesis, ...
Department of Neurology, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan ...
A screen of human-infecting viruses identified extensive examples of viral proteins that resembled human sequences, which ...
Based on the molecular mimicry hypothesis, the team identified 17 microbialpeptides very similar to insulin B:9-23. Testing them in immune cells obtained from type 1 diabetes patients, they identified ...