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Immune tolerance

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What is Immune Tolerance?

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Central and Peripheral Tolerance

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What is IMMUNE TOLERANCE? What does IMMUNE TOLERANCE mean? IMMUNE TOLERANCE meaning

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What is IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE? What does IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE mean?

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TLRs Immune Tolerance Video

Immune tolerance, or immunological tolerance, or immunotolerance, is a state of unresponsiveness of the immune system to substances or tissue that have the capacity to elicit an immune response in given organism. It is induced by prior exposure to that specific antigen and contrasts with conventional immune-mediated elimination of foreign antigens. Tolerance is classified into central tolerance or peripheral tolerance depending on where the state is originally induced—in the thymus and bone marrow (central) or in other tissues and lymph nodes (peripheral). The mechanisms by which these forms of tolerance are established are distinct, but the resulting effect is similar.