Immune Tolerance

"The specific failure of a normally responsive individual to make an immune response to a known antigen. It results from previous contact with the antigen by an immunologically immature individual (fetus or neonate) or by an adult exposed to extreme high-dose or low-dose antigen

Clonal Anergy Research

Clonal Deletion Research

Self Tolerance Research

Tachyphylaxis Research

Transplantation Tolerance Research

Abstracts

- ANTOANTIBODY FORMATION AS A FAILURE OF "SELF-RECOGNITION".

- Apoptosis and autoimmunity. Cell death by apoptosis plays a significant and seemingly contradictory role in the development and pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases. Apoptosis is...

- Autoimmunity versus tolerance: can dying cells tip the balance? Apoptosis is a physiological process of self-destruction for cells that are damaged or programmed to die. Apoptosis occurs through a series of regulated...

- Cutaneous alternariosis. Case report. A case of cutaneous alternariosis is reported in the wife of a 73-year-old farmer. The diagnosis was verified culturally and histologically. The skin lesions...

- Mechanisms of tolerance induced via mixed chimerism. Mixed hematopoietic chimerism provides a powerful means of inducing robust, donor-specific tolerance. In this article, the minimal requirements for achieving...