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CTLA-4: a key regulatory point in the control of autoimmune disease.
Immunological reviews - 1 Jun 2008
Scalapino Kenneth J, Daikh David I
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SUMMARY: Chronic autoimmune disease in humans is the result of a failure to control autoreactive immune cells in the periphery. This control is largely achieved by inhibition of newly activated and memory cells. A number of negative immune regulatory pathways have been characterized. The cell surface coreceptor cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) has emerged as a critical attenuator of T-cell activation and...
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