Contemporary models for peripheral tolerance and the classical 'historical postulate'

被引:15
作者
Bretscher, P [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Saskatchewan, Dept Microbiol & Immunol, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
基金
英国医学研究理事会;
关键词
peripheral tolerance; historical postulate; Th activation; inactivation; two step; two signal model;
D O I
10.1006/smim.2000.0235
中图分类号
R392 [医学免疫学]; Q939.91 [免疫学];
学科分类号
100102 ;
摘要
The formulators of Clonal Selection Theory proposed that what distinguishes self from foreign antigens is their early appearance in development, and their continuous Presence thereafter This early presence of a self antigen in an animals life history was envisaged to ensure that lymphocytes specific for the self antigen were silenced rather than activated. I call this idea 'the historical postulate'. Contemporary models for the activation/inactivation of helper T cells implicitly violate this postulate. I argue against such a violation and for a model of T helper cell activation/inactivation that reconciles contemporary observations with the postulate.
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