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Impaired thymic negative selection causes autoimmune graft-versus-host disease
1 Apr 2003
Abstract excerpt
Animal models with impaired thymic negative selection do not always cause autoimmune diseases despite the development of an autoreactive T-cell repertoire. We investigated the requirements for the development of systemic autoimmune disease by using bone marrow chimeras that lacked expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II on thymic antigen-presenting cells (APCs), leading to impaired negative...
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