Autoantibodies and the physiological role of immunoglobulins

Immunol Today. 1983 Dec;4(12):337-40. doi: 10.1016/0167-5699(83)90169-X.

Abstract

In this article Pierre Grabar returns to the proposal he first made 30 years ago that alloreactive and autoreactive antibodies represent a physiological system for disposing of the products of metabolism and catabolism.