induction

Thymocyte

...y to bind MHC. Negative selection is the active induction of apoptosis in thymocytes with a high affinity for self peptides or MHC. This eliminates cells which would direct immune responses towards self-proteins in the periphery. Negative selection is not 100% complete, some autoreactive T cells escape thym...

Proteopathy

... ^ Meyer-Luehmann M, et al. (2006). "Exogenous induction of cerebral β-amyloidogenesis is governed by agent and host". Science 313 : 1781-1784. PMID 16990547 ....

Depolarization-induced suppression of inhibition

..., Alger BE. (2002) Endocannabinoids facilitate the induction of LTP in the hippocampus. Nat Neurosci. Aug;5(8):723-4. Cristino L, de Petrocellis L, Pryce G, Baker D, Guglielmotti V, Di Marzo V. (2006) Immunohistochemical localization of cannabinoid type 1 and vanilloid transient receptor potential vanilloid...

Artificial induction of immunity

...itish colonies The earliest recorded artificial induction of immunity in humans was by variolation or inoculation , which is the controlled infection of a less lethal natural form of smallpox (known as Variola Minor) into a subject to make him or her immune to re-infection with the more lethal natural fo...

Anterior mediastinal mass

...those with invasive thymoma, treatment is based on induction chemotherapy, surgical resection, and post-surgical radiation. 5-year survival for invasive thymoma is between 12-54% regardless of any myasthenia gravis symptoms (5,6). Lymphoma Main article: lymphoma Secondary most common primary ...