Despite the acceptance of principles such as clonal deletion in the thymus and peripheral clonal anergy, several new issues have arisen in the study of T-cell tolerance. For example, in the case of thymic tolerance, it is now clear that several distinct components of the thymus, including various su
T-cell tolerance
β Scribed by B.J. Fowlkes; Fred Ramsdell
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1019 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0952-7915
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