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The immune system has two overlapping branches used to destroy pathogens. Describe briefly how these two...

The immune system has two overlapping branches used to destroy pathogens.

  1. Describe briefly how these two branches respond differently upon detection of a pathogen.
  2. Describe how mature, functional T cells recognize antigens.
  3. In the T cell tolerance process, is a thymocyte that recognize self antigens able to successively differentiate and leave the thymus as a mature, functional T cell? Explain the importance of having T cells go through this maturation process.

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Sydney Mullin answered 1 year ago
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