Tweaking Innate Immunity: The Promise of Innate Immunologicals as Anti-Infectives
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Innate immunity
From the discovery of antibodies in the late nineteenth century until very recently, the focus of most research in immunology has been the so-called adaptive immune response. Adaptive immune responses are highly specific for a given microorganism and it is the T and B lymphocytes of the adaptive immune response, and the antibodies produced by the B lymphocytes, that are responsible for lasting ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1712-9532
DOI: 10.1155/2006/195957