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Under what circumstances does this occur? Is this something the cell itself signals to the immune system?
by catlifeonmars 5y ago
Under what circumstances does this occur? Is this something the cell itself signals to the immune system?
- dekhn 5y agoit's one of the most extraordinary details I've learned in biology. The thymus expresses cell types from around the body and trains the immune system to not recognize them as foreign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_tolerance it's not for genes, but for epitopes