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Acquired Immune Tolerance Definition:
Ability to produce antibodies against nonself antigens while "tolerating" (not producing antibodies against) self antigens.
Prescott's Microbiology 9th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton
Acquired Immune Tolerance Notes:
Acquired immune tolerance is a state in which the antigen, which were once considered as foreign, become self and are not acted upon by the immune system. Antibodies are made against the non-self or foreign antigens only and no antibodies are produced against the self-antigens i.e. the immune system is tolerating.
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