- specific immune tolerance
- 特异性免疫耐受性
Medical Chinese dictionary (湘雅医学词典). 2013.
specific immune tolerance
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Immune tolerance — or immunological tolerance is the process by which the immune system does not attack an antigen.[1] It can be either natural or self tolerance , in which the body does not mount an immune response to self antigens, or induced tolerance , in which … Wikipedia
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