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Immune Tolerance

"Immune Tolerance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The specific failure of a normally responsive individual to make an immune response to a known antigen. It results from previous contact with the antigen by an immunologically immature individual (fetus or neonate) or by an adult exposed to extreme high-dose or low-dose antigen, or by exposure to radiation, antimetabolites, antilymphocytic serum, etc.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Immune Tolerance" by people in this website by year, and whether "Immune Tolerance" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 240 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 15 publications in 2011
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