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NATURE REVIEWS IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue 12, Pages 849-859Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nri2889
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- US National Institutes of Health
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- Alliance for Lupus Research
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A lack of regulatory T (T-Reg) cells that express CD4, CD25 and forkhead box P3 (FOXP3) results in severe autoimmunity in both mice and humans. Since the discovery of T-Reg cells, there has been intense investigation aimed at determining how they protect an organism from autoimmunity and whether defects in their number or function contribute to the development of autoimmunity in model systems. The next phase of investigation - that is, to define the role that defects in T-Reg cells have in human autoimmunity - is now underway. This Review summarizes our progress so far towards understanding the role of CD4(+)CD25(+)FOXP3(+) T-Reg cells in human autoimmune diseases and the impact that this knowledge might have on the diagnosis and treatment of these diseases.
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