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T cell ignorance is a specific form of immunological tolerance. It describes the maintenance of naivety in antigen‐specific T cells in vivo despite the presence of their target antigen. It is thought to mainly play a role during the steady state, when self‐antigens are presented in absence of costimulatory signals and at low density or to T cells of low affinity. In how far antigen‐specific T cells...