Homeostasis and Self-Tolerance in the Im
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Parijs, L. V.
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Article
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1998
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American Association for the Advancement of Scienc
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English
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The immune system responds in a regulated fashion to microbes and eliminates them, but it does not respond to self-antigens. Several regulatory mechanisms function to terminate responses to foreign antigens, returning the immune system to a basal state after the antigen has been cleared, and to main