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Tolerance, Danger, and the Extended Family

Matzinger, P·1994·Annual Review of Immunology

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For many years immunologists have been well served by the viewpoint that the immune system's primary goal is to discriminate between self and non-self. I believe that it is time to change viewpoints and, in this essay, I discuss the possibility that the immune system does not care about self and non-self, that its primary driving force is the need to detect and protect against danger, and that it does not do the job alone, but receives positive and negative communications from an extended network of other bodily tissues.

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Authors
Matzinger, P.
Venue
Annual Review of Immunology
Published
1994-04
Volume
12
Issue
1
Pages
991-1045
ISSN
  • 0732-0582 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-3278
OpenAlex
W2158500407
Cited by
4,820
References
1
FWCI
30.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
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