Transport of toxic metals by
molecular mimicry. Environ Health Perspect.
Every autoimmune disease seems to have those same components:
molecular mimicry between a host tissue and microorganism, with the inflammatory response set off by some sort of immune-stimulating event.
Cross reactive theories such as
molecular mimicry, has been gaining strong experimental support.
Consequently, the
molecular mimicry does not obey this process of education.
The protozoa Toxoplasma gondii has also been reported to potentially induce autoimmune thyroid cross-reactivity through
molecular mimicry mechanisms [11].
Molecular mimicry as a mechanism of autoimmune disease.
One hypothesis was advanced that cross
molecular mimicry between the H.
According to one theory, the antigen triggering the reaction is a viral protein with
molecular mimicry to a thyroid protein, although clear evidence for a viral etiology is lacking.
Hibbard's expert report concluded she was suffering from "
molecular mimicry [which occurs when] a vaccine generates an immune response that attacks the sympathetic nerve fibers ...
The mechanism of bacteria interfering with host TLR signaling by Tcps, by blocking endogenous protein's association, was described as
molecular mimicry [12].
The different mechanisms suggested for the role of human cytomegalovirus in diabetogenesis maybe related to (1)
molecular mimicry induced by T-cell cross-reactivity between human cytomegalovirus and GAD65 (glutamic acid decarboxylase exists as two isoforms GAD65 and GAD67, a major enzyme required for the production of the gamma amino butyric acid which regulates the glucagon secretion) in pancreatic islet [beta]-cells [102, 103]; (2) the persistence of HCMV specific CD4+ T-cells or a bystander activity [104]; and (3) persistent infection in [beta]-cells [127].