T-Cell tolerance: Central and peripheral

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1-15

  Xing, Yan ^a   Hogquist, Kristin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ADAPTATION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CLONAL ANERGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; CLONAL ANERGY; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84863975386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a006957     Document Type: Article

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