Cellular versus humoral immunology: a century-long dispute
Arthur M. Silverstein
Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. arts@jhmi.edu
Historical insight: Immunology's founding fathers argued fiercely about whether Metchnikoff's phagocytes or Ehrlich's antibodies were the most important mediators of immunity. Antibodies won out, but even after lymphocytes re-established cellular immunology, the humoralist-cellularist divide persisted.
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