Basic liver immunology

• Published in: Cellular & molecular immunology Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 265 - 266
• Main Author: Gao, Bin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.05.2016; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Allergy and Immunology; Antibodies; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; editorial; Immunology; Liver - immunology; Medical Microbiology; Microbiology; Vaccine; 先天免疫; 免疫器官; 免疫学基础; 免疫学特性; 免疫耐受; 肝脏; 自身免疫; 造血功能

The liver is the largest solid organ in the body and has many unique immunological properties, including induction of immune tolerance, strong innate immunity, poor adaptive immune response versus overreactive autoimmunity and hematopoiesis in the fetal liver. Thus, the liver has been proposed as ＇a...