T-cell function in newborn mice and huma
✍
Becky Adkins
📂
Article
📅
1999
🏛
Elsevier Science
🌐
English
⚖ 164 KB
ollowing MedawarÕs landmark experiments in the mouse in the early 1950s (Ref. 1), it became generally accepted that neonatal T cells are uniquely susceptible to tolerance induction. Although direct evidence was difficult to obtain, the idea that human fetuses and neonates were particularly susceptib