Good News - Bad News: The Two Faces of Immune Privilege

• Main Author: Joan Stein-Streilein (auth)
• Other Authors: Rachel R Caspi (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; Eye; Immune Privilege; immune suppression; tolerance; regulatory cells
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Immune privilege was once thought to be the property of a few select sites that include the eye, brain, testis, pregnant uterus and (of all things) the hamster cheek pouch, and was believed to be mainly based on sequestration behind blood-tissue barriers. This view has changed. Immune privilege is n...