Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The NPY Family of Peptides in Immune Disorders, Inflammation, Angiogenesis and Cancer

BookThe NPY Family of Peptides in Immune Disorders, Inflammation, Angiogenesis and Cancer
PublisherBirkhäuser Basel
DOI10.1007/3-7643-7427-6
Copyright2005
ISBN978-3-7643-7159-3 (Print) 978-3-7643-7427-3 (Online)

page 71:
Lewis rats are much more likely to develop autoimmune disorders after sympathectomy (Dimitrova and Felten, 1995). This finding suggests that if sympathetic regulation were impaired in a genetically predisposed individual, an autoimmune disease might develop.
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