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Regulation, counter-regulation, and immunotherapy of autoimmune responses to immunologically privileged retinal antigens.
Immunologic research - 1 Jan 2003
Caspi Rachel R
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Our interests revolve around the study of biological mechanisms regulating self-tolerance to immunologically privileged retinal proteins that serve as targets in sight-threatening autoimmune uveitic disease. These studies are aimed at understanding how selftolerance to these antigens develops during ontogeny and is maintained during adulthood, the processes involved in its pathological breakdown, the regulatory...
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