Bosch Xavier, Mirapeix Eduard
Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clinic, Institut d'Investigació Biomédica August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Nat Rev Nephrol. 2009 May;5(5):247-9. doi: 10.1038/nrneph.2009.51.
The discovery that antibodies to a bacterial antigen can cross-react with a mammalian protein to cause pauci-immune necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis opens up new possibilities for the diagnosis and treatment of this condition.
针对一种细菌抗原的抗体可与一种哺乳动物蛋白发生交叉反应,从而引发寡免疫性坏死性新月体性肾小球肾炎,这一发现为该病症的诊断和治疗开辟了新的可能性。