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  • T cell or thymus independent antigens. T independent antigens are divided into 2 classes by the mechanism of activating B cells. TI-1 antigens have an intrinsic...
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    occur via two pathways: thymus-independent (by infected APCs) or thymus-dependent (by CD4+ T cells). In the thymus-independent pathway, because the APC...
    31 KB (3,843 words) - 08:24, 16 June 2024
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    "non-self" external antigens. Antibodies usually do not react with self-antigens due to negative selection of T cells in the thymus and B cells in the...
    20 KB (2,435 words) - 08:54, 4 March 2024
  • reactivity toward normal self-antigen that was not eliminated in the thymus can occur, since the T cells that leave the thymus are relatively but not completely...
    50 KB (6,028 words) - 07:46, 12 July 2024
  • Antigen processing, or the cytosolic pathway, is an immunological process that prepares antigens for presentation to special cells of the immune system...
    12 KB (1,763 words) - 18:48, 6 April 2023
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    then migrate to the thymus gland to develop (or mature). T cells derive their name from the thymus. After migration to the thymus, the precursor cells...
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    pre-adolescent periods. The thymus is located between the inferior neck and the superior thorax. At puberty, by the early teens, the thymus begins to atrophy and...
    54 KB (6,313 words) - 07:42, 7 June 2024
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    MHC class II (redirect from Hla-d antigens)
    immune antigen-presenting cells, but may also be induced on other cells by interferon γ. They are expressed on the epithelial cells in the thymus and on...
    16 KB (2,022 words) - 12:35, 15 July 2024
  • Fernandez C (1978). "Immunological tolerance to the thymus-independent antigen dextran can be abrogated by thymus-dependent dextran conjugates: evidence against...
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  • (involution) of the thymus with age, resulting in changes in the architecture of the thymus and a decrease in tissue mass. Thymus involution is one of...
    19 KB (2,206 words) - 14:16, 28 December 2023
  • thymus. The thymus had long been regarded as nothing more than a repository for dead cells. Miller didn't buy this hypothesis. By removing the thymus...
    45 KB (5,515 words) - 10:54, 4 January 2024
  • corpuscles in the thymus. At the DP (double-positive) stage, they are selected by their interaction with the cells within the thymus, begin the transcription...
    79 KB (9,493 words) - 15:51, 21 June 2024
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    host. Following Development in the thymus, these cells (termed recent thymic emigrants (RTE)) egress from the thymus and home to secondary lymphoid organs...
    54 KB (6,597 words) - 01:56, 6 June 2024
  • selection process in the thymus to ensure that the T cell receptor (TCR) will not recognize MHC molecule presenting self-antigens, i.e that its affinity...
    17 KB (2,245 words) - 04:47, 3 June 2024
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    variety of self-antigens in the thymus, in which iodine is necessary for its thymus development and activity. In contrast, the B cell antigen-specific receptor...
    118 KB (13,493 words) - 15:10, 22 June 2024
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    migrate through the bloodstream to the thymus for further development. During their maturation in the thymus, they undergo a process called V(D)J recombination...
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    thymus. Development and cytolytic activation are independent of live micro-organisms but they become cytolytic in response to the exogenous antigenic...
    21 KB (2,531 words) - 10:37, 9 January 2024
  • T cells in the thymus, but they also mediate peripheral immune tolerance through several mechanisms. Dependence of a particular antigen on either central...
    24 KB (2,978 words) - 02:08, 5 June 2024
  • avian T cell population, like that of mammals develops in the thymus. However, the thymus in birds is a paired organ composed of many separated lobes of...
    18 KB (2,658 words) - 23:22, 3 December 2022
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    unique antigen specificity. Subsequently, T cells with receptors that recognize the body's own proteins need to be eliminated while still in the thymus. Through...
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