Overriding the body's defenses by suppressing the signaling
between key immune cells, plague races through the lymphatic system, invading organs such as the spleen, the lungs, and especially the liver.
Not exact matches
Kipnis and his team first suspected a link
between the
immune system and social behavior when they found that mice lacking T
cells,
key components of the
immune system, show little interest in their peers.
By showing that ligands associated with innate immunity enable dendritic
cells to initiate T
cell responses, this work provided the
key missing link
between the innate and adaptive
immune responses.