Human autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome, a defect in the apoptosis-inducing Fas receptor: a lesson from the mouse model.

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The immune response is regulated not only by the proliferation, differentiation, and activation of cells, but also by programmed cell death, called apoptosis. Fas ligand expressed in activated T cells binds to its receptor, Fas, and induces apoptosis in target cells. Two mouse mutations that cause autoimmune disease, lpr (lymphoproliferation) and gld (generalized lymphoproliferative disease), are mutations in Fas...

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