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Death diverted, but to what?

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The role of the coreceptor CD28 in thymic clonal deletion has been controversial. New evidence suggests that CD28 deficiency impairs the clonal deletion of self-reactive T cells but also results in their developmental diversion to an anergic lineage that ends up in the gut.

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Figure 1: Outcomes of high-affinity TCR signaling in the thymus.

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