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Casting new light on the TCR

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Dynamic imaging portrays intraepidermal T cells as truly autoreactive, constitutively transmitting signals from a putative ligand expressed by normal epithelial cells.

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Figure 1: Postulated underappreciated parallels between the DETCs TCR and KIRs.

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  1. Cancer Research UK and Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, Adrian Hayday is with the London Research Institute, King's College London, London, UK.,

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  2. Robert Tigelaar is in the Department of Dermatology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.,

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Hayday, A., Tigelaar, R. Casting new light on the TCR. Nat Immunol 13, 209–211 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.2243

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