In what way is the thymic situation advantageous for the purposes of negative selection?
What will be an ideal response?
Generating a more comprehensive repertoire of self peptides in the thymus increases the types of potentially autoreactive T cell that are removed from the peripheral T-cell repertoire during negative selection.
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a. liver b. kidney c. brain d. thyroid e. lung
Fungi are
a. eukaryotic with cell walls made of chitin and glucan b. prokaryotic with cell walls made of peptidoglycan c. multicellular in yeast form d. unicellular in mold form
Medical terms with two syllables are usually accented on the second syllable.?
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following is an example of anaerobic exercise?
A) taking a Zumba class B) cycling C) using resistance bands D) swimming