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Review
. 2017 Mar 8;21(3):297-300.
doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2017.02.003.

Trained Immunity: An Ancient Way of Remembering

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Trained Immunity: An Ancient Way of Remembering

Mihai G Netea et al. Cell Host Microbe. .
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Abstract

The innate arm of the immune system has generally been regarded as primitive and non-specific and, in contrast to adaptive immunity, not to possess memory. Here we review the growing body of evidence that innate immunity has an important capacity to adapt, a de facto innate immune memory (also termed trained immunity), and this provides broad protection against infections.

Keywords: cytokines; infections; innate immune memory; trained immunity; vertebrate immunity.

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