Principles of Anatomy and Physiology
Principles of Anatomy and Physiology
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ISBN: 9781119329398
Author: Gerard J Tortora, Bryan Derrickson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Chapter 22, Problem 25CP
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The purpose of positive as well as negative selection and anergy.

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The self-recognition together with the self-tolerance is the basic traits that a T cell (the cell that matures in the thymus) must have. The T cells should have the ability to recognize the MHC (major histocompatibility complex) proteins of an individual by a process called self-recognition and the reactivity to the peptide fragments from one’s own protein must be absent, this condition is called self-tolerance.

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