... J, Yamazaki S, Sakihama T,Itoh M, Kuniyasu Y, Nomura T, Toda M, Takahashi T: Immunologictolerance maintained by CD25+CD4+regulatory T cells: theircommon role in controlling autoimmunity, ... [43,44], and the removal ofCD4+CD25+using depleting antibody leads to a similarautoimmune phenotype seen in mice after thymectomy[45]. Studies of experimental autoimmune encephalo-myelitis ... where they originate, in thethymus or in the periphery.One prevailing model is that a class of regulatory T cellsthat originate in the thymus, are self-reactive and areinvolved in protection...