Mapping Organism-wide Immune Responses

Laura K Mackay; Julia E Prier

doi:10.1016/j.it.2017.11.005

Mapping Organism-wide Immune Responses

Trends Immunol. 2018 Jan;39(1):1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.it.2017.11.005. Epub 2017 Dec 8.

Authors

Laura K Mackay¹, Julia E Prier²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia. Electronic address: lkmackay@unimelb.edu.au.
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia.

PMID: 29229265
DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2017.11.005

Abstract

Immune responses are often dissected at the molecular or cellular level, but rarely are they investigated at the scale of the whole organism. Here, Chevrier and colleagues reveal that an interconnected web of protective immunity exists between organs, which safeguards the host from systemic viral spread.

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