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Autoimmunity in atherosclerosis

The role of autoantigens

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    Jacob George & Yehuda Shoenfeld

  2. The Institute of Lipid and Atherosclerosis Research, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel

    Dror Harats

  3. Research Unit of Auto immune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel

    Jacob George & Yehuda Shoenfeld

  4. Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

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George, J., Harats, D. & Shoenfeld, Y. Autoimmunity in atherosclerosis. Clinic Rev Allerg Immunol 18, 73–86 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1385/CRIAI:18:1:73

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