Immunology

New Understanding of Ancient Innate Immune System

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 6th, 1996

The innate immune system - which emerged with the first multicellular organisms - is not just an old fossil.

Once thought to be the unnecessary vestigial tail of the immune system, new findings show that innate immunity is the cornerstone of the body's ability to fight infection.

This new understanding of immunity has implications for prophylactic and therapeutic manipulations of the immune system to fight bacterial, protozoan, viral, and autoimmune diseases.

"Mammalian innate immunity is not merely a vestige of ancient antimicrobial systems that have been made redundant by the evolution of acquired immunity," argue Douglas T....

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