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Re-establishing immunological self-tolerance in autoimmune disease

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Recent progress has revealed the molecular basis of how self-reactive T cells are normally generated in the immune system and differentiate into autoimmune effector T cells and how they are controlled by central and peripheral mechanisms of self-tolerance. There is also evidence that target tissues and cells in autoimmune disease have different sensitivities to immune mediators. Here we describe how these basic findings can be clinically translated to re-establish self-tolerance in individuals with autoimmune disease.

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Figure 1: Potential points for therapeutic intervention in the development and progression of autoimmune disease.

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  1. and the Department of Experimental Pathology, Shimon Sakaguchi is at the Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, World Premier Initiative Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Japan, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.,

    Shimon Sakaguchi

  2. Experimental Medicine Division–Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Fiona Powrie is at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK and the Translational Gastroenterology Unit, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.,

    Fiona Powrie

  3. Richard M. Ransohoff is at the Neuroinflammation Research Center, Lerner Research Institute and Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Research (Neurological Institute), Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.,

    Richard M Ransohoff

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