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Nature 425, 351-352 (25 September 2003) | doi:10.1038/425351a
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Immunology: Professional secrets
Craig R. Roy1
Abstract
Looking inside the compartments of certain immune cells — professional antigen-presenting cells — has revealed how the immune system can trigger a cell-killing response to extracellular pathogens.
Our immune system provides effective protection against most pathogens. It can mount a highly specific 'adaptive' response that distinguishes between different sorts of pathogen and activates the appropriate mechanisms to eliminate them.
- Craig R. Roy is in the Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conneticut 06536, USA.
Email: craig.roy@yale.edu
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