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Clonal Deletion

"Clonal Deletion" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Removal, via CELL DEATH, of immature lymphocytes that interact with antigens during maturation. For T-lymphocytes this occurs in the thymus and ensures that mature T-lymphocytes are self tolerant. B-lymphocytes may also undergo clonal deletion.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Clonal Deletion" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Clonal Deletion" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 53 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 1996 and 2000 and 2001 and 2004 and 2005
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.