1. Cell Communication in the Immune Response
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George A. Dos Reis and Gilberto M. Oliveira-Castro
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Transformation (genetics) ,Cell signaling ,Immune system ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Chemistry ,Cell ,medicine ,Junctional conductance ,Junctional permeability ,Coupling ratio ,Organism ,Cell biology - Abstract
Cell interaction mechanisms play a crucial role in almost all biological processes. This volume covers many of the areas in which the study of direct cell-to-cell communication has been used as a tool to probe the nature of several phenomena. Immunology deals with a complex of cellular and humoral factors that allow an organism not only to recognize its own cells but also to react to foreign cells and detect the deviation from self to nonself due to cell transformation.
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- 1977
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