Liver tissue from a mouse model of a rare immune disease called FHL (IMAGE)

Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association

Liver tissue from a mouse model of a rare immune disease called FHL

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Mutated T cells are unable to kill B cells (red) induced by the Epstein-Barr virus. This causes other immune cells to flow into the area of infection, thereby blocking a blood vessel (center).

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Elijah D. Lowenstein and Xun Li, K. Rajewsky Lab, Max Delbrück Center

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