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Recent insights into the role and molecular mechanisms of the autoimmune regulator (AIRE) gene in autoimmunity.
Autoimmunity reviews - 1 Jan 2011
Fierabracci Alessandra
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Since many years immunologists have being tried to answer the tantalizing enigma of immunological tolerance. Complex mechanisms in both thymus (central tolerance) and peripheral lymphoid organs (peripheral tolerance) underly lymphocyte tolerance and its maintenance. The genesis of autoimmunity involves environmental and genetic mechanisms, both contributing to the disruption and deregulation of central and...
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