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Review
. 1996 Dec;4(12):485-9.
doi: 10.1016/s0966-842x(97)82910-1.

Psoriasis and bacterial superantigens--formal or causal correlation?

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Psoriasis and bacterial superantigens--formal or causal correlation?

W H Boehncke. Trends Microbiol. 1996 Dec.

Abstract

Superantigens have recently been identified as candidates for triggering crucial events in the development of psoriasis. Seemingly contradictory observations may complement each other when discussed in the context of the concept of an effector cell cascade initiated by bacterial superantigens that eventually brings about disruption of peripheral tolerance of a CD8+ T-cell subset.

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