The Immune System

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This paper explains that the immune system has the startling ability to differentiate between your body's own cells, which is self and non self (foreign cells). It claims that each cell lugs protein markers or antigens that recognize it as self or non self. Your body's immune system, it expands, couples with all cells that hold the self marker except with specific autoimmune diseases where the body could slip up and think that it is self for non self. Basically, anything that carries a non self marker prompts a response from the immune system, which may include bacteria and viruses.

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"The body's immune system has the startling ability to differentiate between its own cells, between which are "self" and which are "non-self" (foreign cells). Each cell lugs protein markers or antigens that recognize the differences. The body's immune system couples with all cells that hold the "self" marker, except in cases of specific autoimmune diseases in which the body could slip up differentiating between the two. Any cell that carries a non-self marker prompts a response from the immune system, which may include bacteria and viruses. The immune system accumulates a large cache of cells. Some immune cells can destroy a myriad of foreign invaders, while others attack and destroy only specific targets. For the immune system to work succinctly, the immune cells must not only communicate but cooperate with each other."

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