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. 2008 Sep 30;6(9):e241.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060241.

Tolerance to self: which cells kill?

Terri M Laufer  1
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Tolerance to self: which cells kill?

Terri M Laufer. PLoS Biol. .

Abstract

Immune self tolerance involves the deletion in the thymus of developing T cells that have the ability to recognize self-antigens, but by which cells? New evidence argues that cortical epithelial cells can induce deletion of self-reactive T cells.

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