Peripheral education of the immune system by colonic commensal microbiota
The instruction of the immune system to be tolerant of self, thereby preventing autoimmunity, is facilitated by the education of T cells in a specialized organ, the thymus, where self-reactive cells are either eliminated or differentiated into tolerogenic Foxp3+ regulatory T(Treg) cells1. However, i...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192908/ |