to the immune system's role in health and disease. Humoral immunity and cell-mediated immunity are two types of an adaptive immune response that enable the human body to defend itself in a targeted ...

Perhaps if we could work out the evolutionary history of innate and adaptive immunity, this could help us to understand the intricacies of how our immune system functions and sometimes dysfunctions.

Many of the cells in the innate immune system produce cytokines or interact with other cells directly to activate the adaptive immune system. In cancer cells, mutations can lead to expression of tumor ...

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