Abstract:Oral tolerance is the systemic immunological unresponsiveness that occurs after feeding protein antigens. Its physiological role is thought to be the prevention of hypersensitivity to food antigens, and its therapeutic use to treat inflammatory diseases has been suggested. Although it has been shown that CD4 + T cells mediate oral tolerance, the precise molecular mechanisms remain unclear. In the present study, we employed suppression subtractive hybridization and identified 10 genes specifically expressed in … Show more
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