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ARTICLE | Targets & Mechanisms

New autoimmunity targets

October 29, 2009 7:00 AM UTC

Apoptotic cell clearance has been posited as a potential strategy to help prevent autoimmunity, but so far it has not been clear how to modulate the process. Now, two research groups have described actual targets to boost the killing and clearance of apoptotic cells, which are the source of many self-antigens.

A study in Nature shows that a soluble form of the proapoptotic...