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Oral tolerance: immune mechanisms and the generation of Th3-type TGF-beta-secreting regulatory cells.

H. Weiner

2001.9.1MICROBES AND INFECTION

DOI: 10.1016/s1286-4579(01)01456-3

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Mucosal tolerance can be used to treat inflammatory processes that are not autoimmune in nature, because regulatory T cells generated by oral antigen mediate bystander suppression when they encounter the fed autoantigen at the target organ.

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WEINER, H. Oral tolerance: Immune mechanisms and the generation of th3-type TGF-beta-secreting regulatory cells. MICROBES AND INFECTION, 2001, 3 11: 947–54.