Toll-like receptor family members and their ligands /
The innate immune system is sometimes referred to as the "primitive" immune system. Perhaps this has dissuaded immunologists from analyzing it so energetically as they have analyzed the adaptive immune system during the past two decades. But while its phylogenetic origins are indeed ancien...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[2002]
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| Series: | Current topics in microbiology and immunology ;
270. |
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| Summary: | The innate immune system is sometimes referred to as the "primitive" immune system. Perhaps this has dissuaded immunologists from analyzing it so energetically as they have analyzed the adaptive immune system during the past two decades. But while its phylogenetic origins are indeed ancient, and though it is "of the first type", there is nothing crude, nothing unsophisticated, and nothing "inferior" about innate immunity. On the contrary, the innate immune system has had time to achieve a level of refinement that is nothing short of dazzling, and a modicum of respect is at long last due. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 192 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783642594304 (electronic bk.) 3642594301 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0070-217X ; |