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The effector phase of an immune response is commonly described as being either humoral or cell-mediated. The pathological consequences of an immune response are largely determined by the nature of the effector pathway followed. However, the factors that determine which effector mode is activated are not understood. As this represents a major choice made by the immune system, and as the result of the choice has biological and theoretical consequences, studies in my laboratory have been addressing this issue.
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Bottomly, K. (1988). Immunosemiotics: Whither the Immune Response? Factors Directing the Response to Humoral or Cell-Mediated Immunity. In: Sercarz, E.E., Celada, F., Mitchison, N.A., Tada, T. (eds) The Semiotics of Cellular Communication in the Immune System. NATO ASI Series, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73145-7_27
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