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Innate Immunity: From Louis Pasteur to Jules Hoffmann

Innate Immunity: From Louis Pasteur to Jules Hoffmann

Hardcover

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 1785483080
ISBN13: 9781785483080
Publisher: Iste Pr Elsevier
Published: Nov 15 2019
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Innate immunity is a new branch of immunology, confirmed by three Nobel Prize winners in 2011. It is the first line of defense against pathogens and is in a way the preliminary step of adaptive immunity which occurs later, and only present in vertebrates.

This book examines the way in which innate immunity was discovered in invertebrates. As a starting point, it looks at the work of Louis Pasteur on silkworm disease and the findings of Ilya Metchnikov, discoverer of phagocytosis. It also investigates André Paillot, who in 1920 demonstrated the existence of humoral immunity in insects, unrelated to the type of immunity that was initially thought to be present in all vertebrates.

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