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Saturday November 21, 2009 |
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The Immune System / The Immune System in Action
Page: 7
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| Like macrophages, antibodies seek out foreign invaders. Unlike macrophages, they're very selective about what they attack. The ones produced by this last batch of B cells are after the strain of mumps virus that intitiated the counter attack, and only that strain. Many of these antibodies attach themselves to any mumps viruses they encounter. Attached antibodies acted as flags that say, "Here's one!" |
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