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Breach of tolerance: primary biliary cirrhosis.
Seminars in liver disease - 1 Aug 2014
Wang Lifeng, Wang Fu-Sheng, Chang Christopher, Gershwin M Eric
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In primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), the breach of tolerance that leads to active disease involves a disruption in several layers of control, including central tolerance, peripheral anergy, a "liver tolerance effect," and the action of T regulatory cells and their related cytokines. Each of these control mechanisms plays a role in preventing an immune response against self, but all of them act in concert to...
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