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Mechanisms underlying lymphopenia-driven autoimmunity in the setting of co-inhibitory molecule deficiency
DownloadFall 2016
T lymphocytes (T cells) are powerful directors and effectors of immunity. The system of pseudo-random rearrangements of the T cell receptor (TCR) loci that underlie their ability to recognize a vast universe of molecular patterns is at once useful and dangerous, because many T cells develop TCR...
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Fall 2011
The main function of co-inhibitory molecules is to regulate T cell immune responses by providing negative signals to those cells. Homeostatic activation of T cells occurs in both natural and artificially induced states of lymphopenia. Although lymphopenia leads to homeostatic proliferation of T...
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Spring 2023
Recent thymic emigrants (RTE) are newly generated T cells that have just been exported to the periphery, where they continue their maturation to become mature T cells. RTE have only undergone central tolerance in the thymus but not yet undergone peripheral tolerance. As such, it is imperative...