A central role for central tolerance

Annual Review of Immunology

Volumn 24, Issue , 2006, Pages 571-606

  Kyewski, Bruno ^a   Klein, Ludger ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autoimmune regulator; Autoimmunity; Promiscuous gene expression; Regulatory T cells; Thymic epithelium

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; AUTOIMMUNITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROMA CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMUS; TUMOR IMMUNITY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; SELF TOLERANCE; STROMAL CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 33646165128     PISSN: 07320582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.immunol.23.021704.115601     Document Type: Review

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