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SUBMITTER: Cahalan MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2732400 | biostudies-literature | 2008
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cahalan Michael D MD Parker Ian I
Annual review of immunology 20080101
The immune system is the most diffuse cellular system in the body. Accordingly, long-range migration of cells and short-range communication by local chemical signaling and by cell-cell contacts are vital to the control of an immune response. Cellular homing and migration within lymphoid organs, antigen recognition, and cell signaling and activation are clearly vital during an immune response, but these events had not been directly observed in vivo until recently. Introduced to the field of immun ...[more]