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Thymic selection of CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells induced by an agonist self-peptide.
Nature immunology - 1 Apr 2001
Jordan M S, Boesteanu A, Reed A J, Petrone A L, Holenbeck A E, Lerman M A, Naji A, Caton A J
Abstract excerpt
Despite accumulating evidence that regulatory T cells play a crucial role in preventing autoimmunity, the processes underlying their generation during immune repertoire formation are unknown. We show here that interactions with a single self-peptide can induce thymocytes that bear an autoreactive...
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