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The biology and pathology of innate immunity mechanisms
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ISBN: 0306464098 9786610042951 1280042958 030646831X Year: 2002 Publisher: New York, New York : Kluwer Academic Publishers,

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In recent years increased scientific attention has been given to immediate defense mechanisms based on non-clonal recognition of microbial components. These mechanisms constitute the innate immunity arm of the body s defense. Identification of pathogens by these mechanisms involves primarily receptors recognizing sugar moieties of various microorganisms. Innate immunity based mechanisms are essential for the existence of multicellular organisms. They are evolutionarily conserved and designed to provide immediate protection against microbial pathogens to eradicate infection. Activation of innate immunity is crucial for transition to specific immunity and for its orientation, and to assist the specific immune response in the recognition of pathogens and their destruction. Innate immunity is regularly involved in the arrest of bacterial, mycotic, viral and parasitic infections, giving the specific immune response time to become effective. It becomes critically essential in immunocompromised patients who fail to mount specific immune responses due to congenital or acquired immunodeficiencies as a result of chemotherapy, dialysis, immunosuppressive drugs, or HIV infection. The Innate Immunity arsenal constitutes polymorphonuclear and mononuclear phagocytes, mast cells, the complement system, Natural Killer cells, antimicrobial peptides, and presumably a subset of T lymphocytes with TCRl receptors.

Bacterial adhesion to cells & tissues
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ISBN: 041203011X Year: 1993 Publisher: New York Chapman & Hall

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Institutional design in post-communist societies : rebuilding the ship at sea
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Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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Bacterial adhesion to animal cells and tissues
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ISBN: 1555812635 Year: 2003 Publisher: Washington (D.C.) : ASM press,

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Toward anti-adhesion therapy for microbial diseases
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ISBN: 0306453975 1461380421 1461304156 Year: 1996 Volume: 408 Publisher: New York Plenum Press

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