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The Nurse Is Educating a Client with an Autoimmune Disorder

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The nurse is educating a client with an autoimmune disorder about immune tolerance. Which statement should the nurse include in the teaching?


A) "Humoral tolerance refers to the ability to differentiate foreign antigens from self-antigens."
B) "Self-tolerance refers to the elimination of self-reactive T-cells and B-cells in the thymus."
C) "Central tolerance refers to the loss of self-tolerance that occurs as a result of the development of autoantibodies."
D) "Peripheral tolerance occurs when certain immune cells are not eliminated in the central lymphoid organs."

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