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(1) What is the role of positive and negative selection and receptor editing during the development of B and T cells?

(2) If developing B cells fail to develop pre-BCRs, what effects will be soon in the periphery? What will happen to tonsil development?
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(1) What is the role of positive and negative selection and receptor editing during the development of B and T cells?

Posotive and negative selection occurs in the thymus.

Immature T cells move from the Bone Marrow to the tymus where they are posotivly and negativly selected and this is the basis of Tolerance. T cells that bind Too Weakly to the MHC antigen complex are killed by apoptosis. T cells that bind too strongly are also killed by apoptosis. Those that lie between are selected.

This is important as T cell binding too weakly cant raise immune awarness and cells that vbind too strongly cause autoimmune diseases.

Look up T cell anergy which is things like blocking of the receptor deletion of the T cell etc. Try the book immunobilogy By c Janeway or "the immune system" by Peter Parham both published by garland science.

ok this is a very basic overview as its a long subject and needs to be read rather than asked on this.

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(2) If developing B cells fail to develop pre-BCRs, what effects will be soon in the periphery? What will happen to tonsil development?

The pre-B-cell stage is a key checkpoint during B-cell differentiation. Pre-B Cells without a function pre-BCR die by apoptosis.
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