tolerance induction
Training immune acceptance
Tolerance induction is the process of training the immune system to accept a substance it would otherwise attack.
In medicine, this applies to preventing organ transplant rejection or treating autoimmune diseases and allergies.
The goal is to make the body tolerant of specific proteins or tissues: Tolerance induction could eliminate the need for lifelong immunosuppressant drugs.
- anergyImmune system unresponsiveness
- bone marrowBlood cell birthplace
- immunotherapyDisease treatment via body's defenses
- clonalGenetically identical copies
- deletionRemoval of content
regulatory T cells · thymus · negative selection · unresponsiveness · desensitization · allergy shots · monoclonal antibodies · apoptosis · oral · organ transplant · foreign · lymphocytes · regulatory · rejection · graft · central · immune · T-cells
- immune evasionimmune suppression
- immunologyimmune system, immune response, antibodies, antigens, immunity
- immunotherapyimmunotherapy, cancer vaccine, monoclonal antibodies, cancer immunotherapy, cancer vaccines
tolerance inductionimmunization
Protective medical injection
sensitization · immunostimulation · vaccination · anaphylaxis
tolerance inductiongraft rejection
Immune destruction of transplant