… A key function of the immune system is to prevent the body's hostile takeover by microbes.
Central to this host defense is the recognition and elimination of microbes. Neutrophils have …

… on the immune system in a strict sense, ie the physiological defense system, whereas other
facets of defense … elegans immunity was inferred from an elegant genetic screen (43). The F2 …

Phagocytosis requires receptor-mediated recognition of particles, usually in the guise of
infectious agents and apoptotic cells. Phagosomes fuse with lysosomes to generate …

… There will be a focus on concepts that propelled the immune system into prominent … universal
innate immune system of ubiquitous and plentiful invertebrates as an essential system for …

… transferred to naïve congenic siblings have elegantly demonstrated that a persistent population
… Hence, the elegant immunogenetic trickery of the RAG recombinase upon IgSF loci that …

… in a layered structure of the immune system. The immune system is not one system but
rather a sophisticated network of various defensive mechanisms operating on different levels, …

… In this review, we examined a number of elegant studies in C. elegans demonstrating
immune-modulatory roles of neuronal and nonneuronal GPCRs. Notably, some studies in …

… The birth of elegant imaging techniques and mouse models together with multi-parameter …
the role of neurons in the regulation of the immune system, and, thus, this warrants revisiting ( …

… arm of the immune system is to recognize host cells that are infected by viruses, intracellular
bacteria, or other intracellular parasites, T cells have evolved an elegant mechanism that …

… a sophisticated communication system used by all our cell types, including immune cells. …
Critical determinants of the in vivo activities of chemokines in the immune system include their …