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Dual T cell receptor alpha chain T cells in autoimmunity.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 1 Oct 1995
Elliott J I, Altmann D M
Abstract excerpt
Allelic exclusion at the T cell receptor alpha locus TCR-alpha is incomplete, as demonstrated by the presence of a number of T lymphocyte clones carrying two expressed alpha chain products. Such dual alpha chain T cells have been proposed to play a role in autoimmunity, for example, because of a second TCR-alpha beta pair having bypassed negative selection by virtue of low expression. We examined this hypothesis...
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