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Article: To Detect Infectious Pathogens In Body, Pasteur Scientists Unravel Adaptive Immunity From Innate.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Military forces - ground, air and water - send scouts and frontline units ahead in advance of the main military punch lines. They may have learned a thing or two - specifically, two - from the body's immune defenses. Ahead of their multilayered adaptive immunity they deploy the innate immune system. Innate means "built-in."
Many infections are dealt with in their earliest stages by the innate immune system. At first this was thought to be a fairly simple response, but it now seems that there are different arms of the innate reaction ...