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ReviewProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America1996

Balancing immunity and tolerance: deleting and tuning lymphocyte repertoires.

C C Goodnow

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Review in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 116 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

116 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

C C GoodnowHoward Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305-5428, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Immunological self-tolerance is ensured by eliminating or inhibiting self-reactive lymphocyte clones, creating physical or functional holes in the B- and T-lymphocyte antigen receptor repertoires. The nature and size of these gaps in our immune defenses must be balanced against the necessity of mounting rapid immune responses to an everchanging array of foreign pathogens. To achieve this balance, only a fraction of particularly hazardous self-reactive clones appears to be physically eliminated from the repertoire in a manner that fully prevents their recruitment into an antimicrobial immune response. Many self-reactive cells are retained with a variety of conditional and potentially flexible restraints: (i) their ability to be triggered by antigen is diminished by mechanisms that tune down signaling by their antigen receptors, (ii) their ability to carry out inflammatory effector functions can be inhibited, and (iii) their capacity to migrate and persist is constrained. This balance between tolerance and immunity can be shifted, altering susceptibility to autoimmune disease and to infection by genetic or environmental differences either in the way antigens are presented, in the tuning molecules that adjust triggering set points for lymphocyte responses to antigen, or in the effector molecules that eliminate, retain, or expand particular clones.

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AutoimmunityImmune ToleranceAnimalsAntigen-Presenting CellsBone Marrow CellsCell DifferentiationClonal AnergyClonal DeletionHumansLymphocyte ActivationLymphocytesLymphocyte SubsetsPlasma CellsThymus Gland

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PMID8637861
PMCPMC39784

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