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peripheral tolerance: a standalone construct

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Immunology

the mechanisms outside the thymus, such as anergy, deletion and regulatory cells, that keep escaped self-reactive lymphocytes from causing disease.

In immunology, peripheral tolerance refers to the mechanisms outside the thymus, such as anergy, deletion and regulatory cells, that keep escaped self-reactive lymphocytes from causing disease. This meaning comes from Walker (2002) in Nature Reviews Immunology.[1]

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anergy2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs tolerance6 fields · 11 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Walker, L. S. K., & Abbas, A. K. (2002). The enemy within: keeping self-reactive T cells at bay in the periphery. Nature Reviews Immunology, 2(1), 11-19. https://doi.org/10.1038/nri701

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