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Theories and Quantification of Thymic Selection

Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: The peripheral T cell repertoire is sculpted from prototypic T cells in the thymus bearing randomly generated T cell receptors (TCR) and by a series of developmental and selection steps that remove cells that are unresponsive or overly reactive to self-peptide-MHC complexes. The challenge of understanding how the kinetics of T cell development and the statistics of the selection processes combine to provide a diverse but self-tolerant T cell repertoire has invited quantitative modeling approaches, which are reviewed here.
Language: English
Subfield: Immunology
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,801
OpenAlex ID: W2008527905
FWCI: 2.334
Cites: 133
Cited by: 98
Related to: 10