If the 'adaptive' immune system can recognize a significant portion of the pathogenic universe to which the 'innate' immune system is blind, then ...

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Cohn, M [1 ]
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[1] Salk Inst Biol Studies, Conceptual Immunol Grp, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
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10.1111/j.0300-9475.2004.01449.x
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R392 [医学免疫学]; Q939.91 [免疫学];
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The 'adaptive' immune repertoire functionally recognizes pathogens (and their toxic products) that the 'innate' defense system misses. This requires that the self-nonself discrimination and the regulation of effector output be dependent primarily on somatic learning mechanisms (i.e. on the somatically generated, large, random 'adaptive' immune paratopes repertoire).
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