Another remarkable example of a similar concrete construction are the two airplane hangars for the Italian Air Force in Orvieto, Italy, by Italian architect and structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, designed in 1935 and built in 1938. They were also destroyed during World War II.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Molecular mimicry. Molecular mimicry is defined as the theoretical possibility that sequence similarities between foreign and self-peptides are sufficient to result in the cross-activation of autoreactive T or B cells by pathogen-derived peptides.
Furthermore, gluten immune reactivity can also trigger molecular mimicry in the brain, a condition in which the immune system mistakes brain tissue for gluten, attacking the brain when gluten is consumed. Molecular mimicry in pauci-immune focal necrotizing glomerulonephritis.