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The long and winding road: From mouse linkage studies to a novel human therapeutic pathway in type 1 diabetes.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2022
Rojas Manuel, Heuer Luke S, Zhang Weici, Chen Yi-Guang, Ridgway William M
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Autoimmunity involves a loss of immune tolerance to self-proteins due to a combination of genetic susceptibility and environmental provocation, which generates autoreactive T and B cells. Genetic susceptibility affects lymphocyte autoreactivity at the level of central tolerance (e.g., defective, or incomplete MHC-mediated negative selection of self-reactive T cells) and peripheral tolerance (e.g., failure of...
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