Oral tolerance: is it all retinoic acid?
Oral tolerance has been argued to depend on “special” presentation of antigen in the gut. New studies support this idea by showing that the catalysis of vitamin A into retinoic acid (RA) in gut-associated dendritic cells (DCs) enhances the transforming growth factor (TGF)-β–dependent conversion of n...
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The Rockefeller University Press
2007
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2118658/ |