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Host defense pathways: role of redundancy and compensation in infectious disease phenotypes.
Immunity - 27 May 2011
Nish Simone, Medzhitov Ruslan
Abstract excerpt
Innate host defense pathways consist of microbial sensors, their signaling pathways, and the antimicrobial effector mechanisms. Several classes of host defense pathways are currently known, each comprising several pattern-recognition receptors that detect different types of pathogens. These pathways interact with one another in a variety of ways that can be categorized into cooperation, complementation, and...
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