Central tolerance: What have we learned from mice?

Seminars in Immunopathology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 399-409

  McCaughtry, Tom M ^a   Hogquist, Kristin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonal deletion; Thymus; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

APOPTOSIS; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; DENDRITIC CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE DELETION; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; REVIEW; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; APOPTOSIS; CLONAL DELETION; HUMANS; MICE;

EID: 57249095650     PISSN: 18632297     EISSN: 18632300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00281-008-0137-0     Document Type: Review

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