Anatomical basis of tolerance and immunity to intestinal antigens

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 331-341

  Mowat, Allan McI ^a  

^a WESTERN INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

COMMENSALISM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DENDRITIC CELL; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOUSE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PEYER PATCH; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; DENDRITIC CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINES; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MICE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PEYER'S PATCHES; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0038316325     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1057     Document Type: Review

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