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Vaz,N.M.; Faria,A.M.C. de; Verdolin,B.A.; Silva Neto,A.F.; Menezes,J.S.; Carvalho,C.R.. |
Current immunological opinion disdains the necessity to define global interconnections between lymphocytes and regards natural autoantibodies and autoreactive T cells as intrinsically pathogenic. Immunological theories address the recognition of foreignness by independent clones of lymphocytes, not the relations among lymphocytes or between lymphocytes and the organism. However, although extremely variable in cellular/molecular composition, the immune system preserves as invariant a set of essential relations among its components and constantly enacts contacts with the organism of which it is a component. These invariant relations are reflected, for example, in the life-long stability of profiles of reactivity of immunoglobulins formed by normal organisms... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Immunobiology; Immune system; Closure; Network; Autopoiesis; Panama blot. |
Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2003000100003 |
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