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COX-2: promoting tolerance

Nature Medicine volume 5, pages 867–868 (1999)Cite this article

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Transgenic mouse studies designed to explore T cell-mediated immunity in the gut (page 900) uncover another function for COX-2.

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Figure 1: Possible role of COX-2 metabolites in oral tolerance.

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