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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 7.
Published in final edited form as: Heart Rhythm. 2011 Jul 6;8(11):10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.06.032. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.06.032

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Immunologic tolerance and autoimmune diseases. An illustration showing the normal intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms of immunologic tolerance. Loss of tolerance results in inappropriate production of autoantibodies and in autoimmune diseases.