Limited Peripheral T Cell Anergy Predisposes to Retinal Autoimmunity
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Limited peripheral T cell anergy predisposes to retinal autoimmunity.
Autoimmune uveoretinitis accounts for at least 10% of worldwide blindness, yet it is unclear why tolerance to retinal Ags is so fragile and, particularly, to what extent this might be due to defects in peripheral tolerance. To address this issue, we generated double-transgenic mice expressing hen egg lysozyme, under the retinal interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding promoter, and a hen egg lysozym...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Immunology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0022-1767,1550-6606
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.7.4276