TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Overview of the Immune System
A1  - Sullivan, Kathleen E.
A2  - Kline, Mark W.
PY  - 2018
T2  - Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
AB  - Our  immune  system  has  evolved  to  provide  protection  from  the  pathogens  that  inhabit  the  natural  world,  and  a  critical  aspect  of  immunologic  function  is  the  distinction  between  self  tissues  and  non-self  tissues.  Self  tissues  must  not  become  a  target  for  immune  responses,  and  training  to  protect  self  tissues  is  the  essence  of  tolerance.  Our  host  defense  includes  barrier  functions,  and  we  now  know  that  the  barrier  interacts  dynamically  with  the  cells  of  the  immune  system  as  part  of  this  defense.  In  this  overview,  we  will  describe  the  elements  of  the  immune  system,  the  development  of  different  functional  arms  of  the  immune  system,  and  the  beautiful  choreography  that  is  intrinsic  to  an  immune  response.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/25
UR  - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182931515
ER  -