Self recognition by the immune system
- 1 December 1990
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 194 (3) , 693-698
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb19459.x
Abstract
In each organism, the immune system must acquire the ability to distinguish self from nonself. Experiments in T cell receptor transgenic mice indicate that this process involves the selection of lymphocytes in the thymus.Keywords
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