Biology A-Level
Self-tolerance
What Self-tolerance means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Self-tolerance
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Reference: OCR
The normal process that prevents the immune system from attacking the body's own tissues, and whose breakdown underlies autoimmunity.
Topics that use Self-tolerance
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- active immunity
- Active immunity and memory cells
- agglutination
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- Animal communicable diseases
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- Antibody specificity
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