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Abstract
The autoimmune process that produces Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus seems to respond favourably to therapeutic vaccination with a peptide of the 60 kDa heat shock protein. This article is a personal review of the observations and the thinking that gave rise to the idea of therapeutic peptide vaccination. The rationale for vaccination therapy is compared to other approaches aimed at specific immunological treatment for autoimmune disease.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12378391 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-002-0937-z
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Diabetologia ISSN: 0012-186X Impact factor: 10.122