dfonseca at mail.sas.upenn.edu (Dina Fonseca) asks:
>Are there true peripheral antigens?
>I mean by this, are there proteins expressed and presented in the periphery,
>to which tolerance must be established by peripheral mechanisms? For which
>failure of tolerance induction would lead to autoimmunity?
>Surely such self proteins must exist?
>How could tolerance to such proteins possibly be established?
How about:
Proteins that are expressed only after puberty. e.g. sperm proteins in males.
Dr. Colin R.A. Hewitt
University of Leicester/MRC
Centre for Mechanisms of Human Toxicity
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