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How the Immune System Recognizes Self and Nonself

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-4-431-73884-8

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This brain function must have been particularly important for most animals to protect their lives from enemies and for species to survive through evolution. Similarly, higher organisms have also acquired their immune system through evolution that discriminates nonself pathogens and self-body to protect their lives from pathogens such as bacteria or viruses. The brain system may distinguish integrated images of self and nonself created from many inputs, such as vision, sound, smell, and others. The immune system recognizes and distinguishes a variety of structural features of self and nonself components. The latter actually include almost everything but self.


Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Viruses, autoimmune disease, bacteria, cell, diseases, immune system, immunity, immunoglobulin, infection, lymphocytes, membrane, protein, regulation, tissue, tumors