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The acquisition of immunologic tolerance is primarily achieved by selective deletion of self-reactive T cells within the thymus, whereby the interaction between self-antigen and the T cell receptor at an immature stage in T cell differentiation aborts further development of the cell (1,2). Within the thymus, developing thymocytes are subjected to both positive and negative selection. It is believed that positive selection permits development of thymocytes bearing receptors capable of binding self-MHC and foreign peptide. Negative selection (or tolerance induction), on the other hand, is thought to arrest the maturation of those thymocytes with high affinity for self-MHC (3). Both bone marrow derived antigen presenting cells and thymic epithelial cells have been demonstrated to be involved in tolerance induction within the thymus (4–7).
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Mayo, G.L. et al. (1994). Induction of Donor-Specific Tolerance by Intrathymic Cellular Transplantation. In: Touraine, J.L., Traeger, J., Bétuel, H., Dubernard, J.M., Revillard, J.P., Dupuy, C. (eds) Rejection and Tolerance. Transplantation and Clinical Immunology, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0802-7_23
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