Contextual Cell Death in Adaptive Immunity: Selecting a Winning Response

Winning the game “Rock, Scissors, Paper” depends on what others do. There is no guarantee that one choice will always win. Does the adaptive immune system use the same intransitive logic to select winners? Here I propose that specialized receptor-ligand pairs, called clicks, initiate contextual cell...

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Main Author: Alan Herbert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2019.02898/full