Self-antigen presentation by thymic stro
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Ludger Klein; Bruno Kyewski
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Self-antigen-MHC complexes expressed by thymic stromal cells serve as ligands for TCR-mediated positive and negative selection, resulting in a self-MHC-restricted, self-tolerant T cell repertoire. It has recently become apparent that thymic stromal cells differ in their accessibility to antigen as w