a: thymus ~
b: a filter
What:
"The thymus is like a filter," said Mark Anderson, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the UCSF Diabetes Center, and senior author of a scientific paper describing the discovery. "It is removing or pulling out autoreactive T cells. What this new study shows is if just one self-antigen is missing as the T cells go through the filter, it looks like this alone can lead to an autoimmune disease."
Useful?
Writer: Mark Anderson, MD, PhD
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Date: Mar 2 2014 1:07 PM
# 5165 Critique Analogy