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

• Auteur principal: Joan Stein-Streilein (auth)
• Autres auteurs: Rachel R Caspi (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Collection: Frontiers Research Topics
• Sujets: Medicine; Eye; Immune Privilege; immune suppression; tolerance; regulatory cells
• Accès en ligne: 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...