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Innate immunity: cells, receptors, and signaling pathways.
Archivum immunologiae et therapiae experimentalis - 1 Jan 2000
Błach-Olszewska Zofia
Abstract excerpt
Essential differences between the innate and acquired branches of immunity are described. These differences concern the detection system (receptors and pathogen structures) and the cells engaged in both systems as well as the effectory mechanisms. In contrast to those of the acquired system, receptors of the innate system, which developed during evolution, recognize unchanged structures on large groups of...
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