Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Saturday, June 8, 2013

How do immune cells detect infections?

 How do immune cells manage to sort through vast numbers of similar-looking proteins within the body to detect foreign invaders and fight infections.
"For immune cells, singling out foreign proteins is like looking for a needle in a haystack -- where the needle may look very much like a straw, and where some straws may also look very much like a needle," notes McGill University physics professor Paul François.

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1 comment:

RAWDA RUTH SARRAIL said...

| immune T-cells have to distinguish ligands from self ligands using an internal Biochem tool.*

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