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The Primordial Vrm System and Evolution of Vertebrate Immunity - Couverture rigide

Stewart, J.

 
9781570591198: The Primordial Vrm System and Evolution of Vertebrate Immunity
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1570591199 ISBN 13 : 9781570591198
Editeur : CRC Press Inc, 1994

Synopsis

This book discusses the evolutionary origin of immunoglobulins and T-cell receptors. The complex interactions between B and T cells in response to external antigens are the major focus of contemporary immunology. This book argues that these interactions may be relatively late evolutionary developments, due to the redeployment of a system invented for other reasons. In other words immunoglobulins did not arise in evolution to fight infection. The author theorizes that the system of variable region moleculars (VRM) arose at the time of the first vertebrates by an endogenous, self-organizing process. This primordial VRM system instituted a molecular ecology, a function so vital that from then on no vertebrate has been able to do without it.

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Éditeur
CRC Press Inc
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1570591199
ISBN 13 
9781570591198
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
118
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Personne responsable
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