autoreactive cell

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• autoreactive — adjective Acting against the organism by which it was produced an autoreactive T cell clone See Also: autoimmune …   Wiktionary

• T cell vaccination — is immunization with inactivated autoreactive T cells. The concept of T cell vaccination is, at least partially, analogous to classical vaccination against infectious disease. However, the agents to be eliminated or neutralized are not foreign… …   Wikipedia

• Cytotoxic T cell — Antigen presentation stimulates T cells to become either cytotoxic CD8+ cells or helper CD4+ cells. A cytotoxic T cell (also known as TC, Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte, CTL, T Killer cell, cytolytic T cell, CD8+ T cells or killer T cell) belongs to a… …   Wikipedia

• Fas antigen — Cell surface transmembrane protein (35 kD) that mediates apoptosis. Has structural homology with TNF receptor and NGF receptor. May play a part in negative selection of autoreactive T cells in the thymus …   Dictionary of molecular biology

• Systemic lupus erythematosus — For other uses, see lupus (disambiguation). Systemic lupus erythematosus Classification and external resources The typical butterfly rash found in lupus ICD 10 L …   Wikipedia

• Denise Faustman — Denise L. Faustman, (born 1958[1]) is a U.S. physician and medical researcher. An Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard University and Director of the Immunobiology Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, her work specializes in… …   Wikipedia

• Molecular mimicry — is defined as the theoretical possibility that sequence similarities between foreign and self peptides are sufficient to result in the cross activation of autoreactive T or B cells by pathogen derived peptides. Despite the promiscuity of several… …   Wikipedia

• Thymocyte — Thymocytes are T cell precursors which develop in the thymus. The processes of beta selection, positive selection and negative selection shape the population thymocytes into a peripheral pool of T cells that are able to respond to foreign… …   Wikipedia

• Thymus — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = GraySubject = 274 GrayPage = 1273 Caption = Thymus Caption2 = The thymus of a full term fetus, exposed in situ. Precursor = third branchial pouch System = Artery = derived from internal mammary artery,… …   Wikipedia

• Clinical uses of mesenchymal stem cells — Adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are being used by researchers in the fields of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering, to artificially reconstruct human tissue which has been previously damaged. Mesenchymal stem cells have the capacity… …   Wikipedia

• Cross-presentation — The term cross presentation denotes the ability of certain antigen presenting cells to take up, process and present extracellular antigens with MHC class I molecules to CD8 T cells (cytotoxic T cells). Cross priming describes the stimulation of… …   Wikipedia