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How the Immune System Recognizes Self and Nonself : Immunoreceptors and Their Signaling by Daisuke Kitamura, editor is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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How do you discriminate yourself from other people? This question must sound odd to you since you easily recognize others at a glance and, without any effort, would not mistake them for yourself. However, it is not always easy for some people to discriminate themselves from others. For example, patients with schi- phrenia often talk with “others” living inside themselves. Thus it is likely that n- mally your brain actively recognizes and remembers the information belonging to yourself and discriminates it from the information provided by others, although you are not conscious of it. This brain function must have been particularly important for most animals to protect their lives from enemies and for species to survive through evolution. Similarly, higher organisms have also acquired their immune system through evolution that discriminates nonself pathogens and self-body to protect their lives from pathogens such as bacteria or viruses. The brain system may distinguish integrated images of self and nonself created from many inputs, such as vision, sound, smell, and others. The immune system recognizes and distinguishes a variety of structural features of self and nonself components.

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Author

Daisuke Kitamura, editor

Publisher

Springer Tokyo

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9784431998310

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Chemistry, Medical