Infectious tolerance: therapeutic potential.
Infectious tolerance describes an in vivo process in which tolerance is passed on from one population of lymphocytes to another. In this way, short-term therapy aimed at generating infectious tolerance has the potential to achieve long term, self-perpetuating immune homeostasis in a clinical setting. In recent years, a number of differing strategies have successfully achieved tolerance in vivo. These include harnessing regulatory T cells and tolerogenic antigen presenting cells, promoting tolerogenic interactions or inhibiting activation of effector cells. Many of these are just beginning to face the harsh realities of the therapeutics industry.
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Adrian R
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Therapeutic Immunology Group, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RE, United Kingdom.
Waldmann
Herman
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D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D007108:Immune Tolerance / Q000276:immunology*; D007239:Infections / Q000276:immunology* / Q000628:therapy